Water mill - vertical-wheeled

The National Monuments Service's description

The terrier of the Down Survey map of Bunown parish recorded that there stands 'on Bunowen & c. a Castle (WM022-022----) and a mill' which stood on the lands of Pierce Dillon, an Irish papist in 1641 (NLI, MS 723-4).
Mill Pond depicted on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map located in same area as watermill located on 1659 Down Survey map of Kilkenny West barony (NLI, MS 723-4). On this map the mill is depicted with a vertical waterwheel on the gable of a building standing on the bank of a river and annotated as 'mill'. Mill Pond depicted on 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map may be the mill pond belonging to the mill depicted on the Down Survey map. On this map the mill is shown located at the meeting point of the boundary between three townlands which today are represented by Farrannamoreen, Pearsonbrook and Glassan. On the Down Survey map of Bunowen parish the mill is depicted further away from the townland boundary and is possibly located in the area where a 'Corn Mill' is depicted in Glassan on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map. The mill was probably located on the N side of the stream between the mill pond at Pearsonbrook and the Corn Mill at Glassan. Alternatively the Corn Mill at Glassan may have been built on the site of or incorporated part of the mill depicted on the Down Survey map.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 23 July 2015

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.