Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mill - unclassified
Fence, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fence
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX053-056----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A watermill is depicted on the Down Survey barony map (1656-8) of Forth in Tacumshin parish at an enlarged Ballymacane (18), at a point that is probably in the Fence area. According to the Book of Survey and Distribution (1660s) as part of the Ballymacane manor it would have been owned by Nicholas Stafford in 1640 (Simington 1953, 304). The manor comprised over 600 acres, as well as Lady’s Island Lough, then known as Lough Tougher. The precise location of this mill is not known. For the Down Survey barony map see this web-page accessed on 20 February, 2014: http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Forth&c=Wexford
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 March, 2014
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.