Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - vertical-wheeled
Ballynahown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynahown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- WM035-011002-
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The National Monuments Service's description
The 1659 Down Survey map of Kilcleagh Parish depicts a ‘Castle (WM035-010----) in repaire & Towne’ in ‘Ballenihone/Killemoyllchan’ which roughly corresponds with the present demesne lands of Ballynahown Court (NLI MS 723-4). On this map a castle and bawn (WM035-010001-) are depicted in the SW quadrant of Ballynahown townland which does not correspond with the area of woodland to the E of Ballynahown Court. A ‘mill in repair’ is also shown standing along a mill race located in close proximity to the castle and bawn. The terrier of the Down Survey map of Killcleagh parish states that in Ballynahown there was ‘a Castle and a large Bawne in repaire with a good Mill’ (NLI MS 723-4). In 1641 the lands of ‘Ballenihone Killemoyllchan’ amounting to 470 acres of land were in the possession of Catherin[e] Malone al[ia]s Pettit who was listed as an ‘Irish Papist’. The lands of Ballynahown were described in the Down Survey as consisting of a mixture of pasture, meadow, arable and rocky land. The precise location of the castle, bawn, mill and mill race has not been identified within the townland of Ballynahown.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 8 August 2014
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.