Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - unclassified
Ballydusker, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballydusker
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX047-100----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A watermill is marked on the Down Survey barony map of Forth (1656-8) at Ballydouskar in Killinick parish (Hore 1925, 10), and 56 acres at Ballydonskar was owned by John Synnott in 1640 (Simington 1953, 303). The location of the mill is not known.
See the attached view from the Down Survey barony map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 22 October, 2013
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1961 The Civil Survey A.D. 1654–56. Vol. X: Miscellanea, including a map showing changes to the county and barony boundaries since the Civil Survey (1654–56), 10 vols. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Hore, P. H. 1925 The barony of Forth. Part 3. The Past, vol. 3, 9-40.