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Mill - unclassified

Croan Lower, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mill - unclassified, Croan Lower, County Tipperary South, 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
Croan Lower
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.35331, -7.67776
SMR number
TS083-021001-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Less than a mile E of Clonmel, immediately S of the River Suir. According to Lyons (1942, 72-3) c. 140m SW of the mill pond there was an ‘ancient mill site’, which is indicated on a sketch plan by Lyons. He speculates that the ‘corn-mill, presumably of the Franciscans, seems to have been located as shown in the plan, as here a current to work the water-wheel was available. A ruined building at the spot seems to be a part of the mill. The lodge at the spot is quite modern, and it can be shown that there was no road here in medieval times’. Lyons suggests that the mill utilised the water channel which fed the mill ponds, which he interpreted as medieval fish-ponds (TS083-021003-). The mill race, feeding the mill pond, is shown on the 1st (1840-41) and and 1950-51 ed. OS 6-inch map. There is insufficient evidence to suggest that there was a pre-1700 mill at the location suggested by Lyons.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 20 January 2015

Nearby in the register

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

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