Old Mill, water mill in County Galway

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What is recorded here

In level reclaimed grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a roofed T-shaped building straddling a stream. All that survives is a section of the millrace, sluice gate and, on N bank of the stream, a small D-shaped enclosure (E-W 9m, N-S 7.9m) defined by a mortared limestone wall. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA029-021

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Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
TuamRCCathedral.jpg : JohnArmagh derivative work: Rabanus Flavus, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
David Cunniffe / Tuam Herald, Source publisher
ClintMalpaso, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0

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