Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - unclassified
Unknown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Unknown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- WM000-001----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The location of a watermill mentioned in a seventeenth century land grant to Adam Loftus has not been identified. In 1609 Adam Loftus was granted 'a watermill in Milforen' which was parcel of the estate lands belonging to the dissolved monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Tristernagh (WM011-053----) (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 140). The location of this placename Milforen within Westmeath has not been identified. It appears to have been located close to the townlands of Monkstown, Sheefin and Rathcorbally.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 24 July 2015
References
Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I - Irish patent rolls of James I: facsimile of the Irish record commissioners' calendar prepared prior to 1830, with foreword by M.C. Griffith (Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin, 1966)