Tide mill - unclassified

The National Monuments Service's description

A water mill at Bannow, which was first mentioned in 1307, is described as ruinous in 1324 (Hore vol. 4, 453-4). In 1634 it was part of the estate of John Cullen of Cullenstown castle (ibid. 457). It has recently been identified as a tidal mill, the causeway of which survives across a small inlet and stream just N of Brandane church (WX045-047----) (Magahy 2017, 317-20). The causeway (O’Broin 1921, 121) was known as the ‘Black Bridge’, from which large pieces of blackened oak, probably the remnants of the millhouse had been recovered c. 1800 (Tuomy 1850, 209). The causeway (L c. 150m) consists of a grass-covered bank of stones (Wth c. 1-2m; H c. 0.5m) with a break (L c. 15m) near its S end.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 25 January, 2017

References

Magahy, I. 2016 ‘Rebuilding Bannow: mapping the abandoned town of Bannow' in I. Doyle and B. Browne (eds) Medieval Wexford: Essays in memory of Billy Colfer, 312-30. Dublin, Four Courts Press

Tuomy, J. C. 1850 The Bay and Town of Bannow. No. II Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, vol. 1, No. 2, 194-210.

Hore, P.H. 1900-1911 (Reprint 1979) History of the town and county of Wexford, 6 vols. Dublin. Published by arrangement with W.A. Hennessy Esq.

O'Broin, T. 1921 Bannow. The Past 2, 120-26.