Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mill - unclassified
Milltown (rathconrath By., Rathconrath Ed), County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Milltown (rathconrath By., Rathconrath Ed)
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- WM017-118----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a mill in the townland of Milltown mentioned in a seventeenth century land grant to the Earl of Kildare has not been identified. In 1609 Gerald, Earl of Kildare was granted 'the ruinouse castle (WM017-058---), town and lands of Ballymullen otherwise Milton, containing 1 caruc. and a ruinous mill there' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 140). The corn mill in the adjoining townland of Corkan may be located on the site of the medieval mill. Alternatively the medieval mill may have been located elsewhere within the townland of Milltown.
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)