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Milling complex

Cottlestown, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Milling complex, Cottlestown, County Sligo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Cottlestown
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Corn Mill; Mill Race;Mill Pond; Sluice
Coordinates
54.17683, -9.09033
SMR number
SL022-008----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Listed in the SMR (1989) as 'Non-antiquity' and in the RMP (1995) 'Mill Pond'. Not marked on the 1837 edition of the OS 6-inch map. On the 1913 edition a 'Corn Mill' is depicted at the external face of the SW end of the NW wall of the yard of 'Castletown House' (SL022-009----). A 'Mill Race' is shown linking the mill and a mill pond (diam. 33.5m) with sluice c.250m SW. This is a post-1700 monument.

Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan

Date of upload: 31 July 2012

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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