Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mill - corn
Crowinstown Great, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crowinstown Great
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Corn Mill
- Latest-edition OS map
- Outlined
- Coordinates
- 53.61112, -7.02327
- SMR number
- WM014-011----
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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
The precise location of the corn mill in the townland of Crowinstown Great has not been identified. In 1647 a fine of £15 was levied on a group of mills in Co. Westmeath to pay Captain Ignatius Nugent of the Irish Confederate Army. The sum of 4s 8d. was levied on 'Moore in Creniston, or same, one mill' (Cal. S.P. Ire., 624). This mill is mentioned in the terrier of the 1659 Down Survey map of Castletown parish where it states that there was 'At Cronistowne there is the walles of a Chappell of Ease (WM014-009---) wth a Corn Mill in repaire' (NLI, MS 723-4). It is possible that the Corn Mill depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map stands on the site of the mill mentioned in the 1659 Down Survey. In 1982 the ASI recorded that there was 'no visible remains of a mill in this vicinity. The stream which is a tributary of the Stonyford River has recently been drained by the OPW' (SMR File 21/08/1982).
Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 6 December 2016
References
NLI, MS 723-4 - National Library of Ireland, The parish maps of the Down Survey for the County of Westmeath, attested by W. Petty, in 1659. Copied by Daniel O'Brien. A set of 67 maps with accompanying terriers in two volumes, 1786-7. Dublin.
Cal. S.P. Ire. - Calendar of the state papers relating to Ireland, 1509-1670 [etc.] (24 vols., London 1860-1911).
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.