Water mill - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

The precise location of a watermill associated with Kilcowle Castle (WM025-117----) and bawn (WM025-117001-) has not been identified. The watermill is listed in a 1609 land grant to Sir Robert Nugent of Walshestown. In this year Sir Robert Nugent was granted 'a castle (WM025-117----), a bawn (WM025-117001-), a large orchard or croft, 20 messuages; 20 gardens, a watermill, 4 carucates of free land, containing by estimation of the great measure in the said manor and the town of Kilcowle, parcels of the demesne, 480a arable, 100a meadow, 200a pasture, furze, and bush, 40a wood, 40a marsh, 40a bog, 50a moor — the great lough called Loughenia otherwise Loughenill [Lough Ennell], with the fishing thereof, as far as it mears with the lands of Disert [Dysart] and Kilcowle ; also the three islands therein called the great island [Dysart Island], 2a, Robbins island ½a, and Crowyence [Croincha], 1a – the river, and the fishing thereof, running upon and near the said manor of Disert and Kilcowle in Tolchane-Even' (Cal. pat. rolls Ire., Jas I, 196). Numerous earthworks are visible on Digital Globe aerial photographs in the area where the castle may have been located. Some of these earthworks may be associated with the watermill mentioned in the 1609 land grant. Kilcooley House stands 470m to the W, Dysart Island is 750m to the E and Croincha Island (WM025-150---) lies 720m to the S.

Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 10 November 2017