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Water mill - vertical-wheeled

Killoteran, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Water mill - vertical-wheeled, Killoteran, County Waterford, 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
Killoteran
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.23548, -7.21176
SMR number
WA017-119----

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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)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated in the valley of the S-N Ballymoat stream with the canalised stream c. 100m to the E. First identified as Site 4 at Adamstown, in centre-line testing (03E0406) for the N 25 Waterford City by-pass (Russell 2006e), and excavated with the same licence during 2004 as Killoteran 9 (Murphy 2007) and 2005 (Russell (2008b).
A leat (Wth 3m) led to a semicircular mill-pond (diam. c. 7m) immediately SW of the mill. Two dams (L c. 5m) set 3.5m apart and consisting of oak planks set longditudinally in a slotted oak base-plate controlled the water, which could be released through sluices in the dams. The wheel housing (dims. 2m x 1.5m) was lined with planks as was its floor. The mill-house was on the bank to the NW, and two of its walls were identified. A small timber and wattle-lined tail-race (Wth 2m) was also identified. Fragments of the mill mechanism, including paddles from the wheel, and discarded millstones made of a local sandstone were recovered. Two timbers produce C14 dates of AD 410-650 and AD 340-600. (Russell el al. 2011)

Murphy, D. (2007) Killoteran 9. Vertical watermill. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2004: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 426-7, No. 1681. Wordwell. Bray.
Russell, I. (2006e) Site 4, Adamstown. Timber structure. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 491-2, No. 1855. Wordwell. Bray.
Russell, I. (2008b) Killoteran 9. Vertical watermill. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2005: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 364, No. 1496. Wordwell. Dublin.
Russell, I.; Moore, C.; O’Sullivan, A. and V. Ginn (2011) Killoteran 9, Co. Waterford. in J. Eogan and E. Shee-Twohig (2011) Cois tSiúire – nine thousand years of human activity in the lower Suir valley. Archaeological excavations on the N25 Waterford city bypass, vol. 1, 37-48. NRA road scheme: Monograph 8, Dublin

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 19 January 2011

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