Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - unclassified
Russagh, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Russagh
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Corn Mill, Tuck Mill
- Latest-edition OS map
- Corn Mill
- Coordinates
- 53.66728, -7.50027
- SMR number
- WM006-073----
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
In 1612 Robert Dillon of Cannorstown was granted 'a water-mill in Russagh' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 228). The post medieval corn mill depicted on the OS 6-inch map may have been built on the site of the medieval mill.
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)
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Moated siteunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Castle - motteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.