Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mill - unclassified
Millquarter (gorey By.), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Millquarter (gorey By.)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Corn Mill
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.71107, -6.40807
- SMR number
- WX006-069----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A mill at Monaseed was owned by Henry Masterson in 1640, but this was ruined by the time of the Civil Survey (1654-6) (Simington 1953, 7, 30). A mill is marked on the 1839 and 1924 eds of the OS 6-inch map at Millquarter on a W-facing slope in the valley of the N-S River Lask, c. 60m from the stream. The mill survives as a two-storey structure (ext. dims. 7.1m N-S; 6.1m E-W) with walls 0.6m thick. Two large beams support the first floor, but no milling equiptment survives. The head race (L c. 500m), still with a strong flow of water, runs parallel with the stream until it turns W along the N side of the mill. There is a later structure attached to the W of the mill. The date of the mill building is unknown but it is probably on the site of the original.
Compiled by; Michael Moore
Date of upload: 1 February, 2012
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.