Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - horizontal-wheeled
Ballydowane West, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydowane West
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.13582, -7.40677
- SMR number
- WA024-067----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on the W bank of a N-S stream c. 450m from where it enters the sea at Ballydowane Bay. Oak beams that were recovered during land reclamation in 1968 (Decie 1976) produced a dendrochronological date of AD 841 ± 9 (Baillie 1980). Nothing is visible at ground level.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore.
Date of upload/revision: 10th May, 2011.
References
Baillie, M. 1980 Dendrochronology - the Irish View. Current Archaeology 73, 61-3.
Decie (ed.) 1976 Ancient Mill at Ballydwane. Decies, no. 2, 4.
Nearby in the register
- Burnt moundunder 1 mi
- Promontory fort - coastalunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.