Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Water mill - unclassified
Sigginstown, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sigginstown
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- WX053-109----
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The National Monuments Service's description
A watermill is depicted on the Down Survey barony map (1656-8) of Forth barony at Sigginstown (10) and is mentioned in the terrier or commentary of the parish map in NLI (ms 725; microfilm: P 7384, N 6380). According to the Book of Survey and Distribution (1660s) Edward Siggins of Sigginstown castle (WX053-001----) owned 106 acres here in 1640, and 44 acres at Atlistowne and Rochland, now called Ecclestown, in Tacumshin parish (Simington 1953, 304-05). The precise location of this mill is not known.
See the attached section of the Down Survey barony map (N at right) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 March, 2014
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.