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Millstone quarry

Ballyhack, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Millstone quarry, Ballyhack, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballyhack
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.24480, -6.96617
SMR number
WX044-031----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on top of cliffs (H c. 30-40m) down to the estuary of the Barrow/Nore/Suir, which is immediately to the SW. The medieval settlement on Great Island (WX039-090----) produced millstones in the middle ages, perhaps from this location. Robert Leigh writing in 1684 records that millstones were quarried from rock over Ballyhack (Hore 1858-9, 458). There are rectangular troughs (dims. c. 6m x 4m; D 0.3-0.5m), with the curved negative impression of millstones, cut into the surface of the rock outcrop. There are also some unfinished millstone rough-outs in the vicinity.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload/revision: 17 June, 2013

References

Hore, H. F. 1858-9 A chorographic account of the southern part of the county of Wexford, written Anno 1684: by Robert Leigh, Esq., of Rosegarland, in that county. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 5, 17-21, 451-67.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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