Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - unclassified
Walshestown North,walshestown North (part of),walshestown South, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Walshestown North,walshestown North (part of),walshestown South
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- WM018-153----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a watermill mentioned in a seventeenth century land grant to Robert Nugent of Walshestown has not been identified. In 1611 Robert Nugent was granted 'a water-mill and 3 plowlands in Ballynebranagh otherwise Walshetowne' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 196).
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)