Mill — Englishtown,limerick City

Thomas Arthur's mill, one of a pair of mills (LI005-017075-) located between King John's Castle (LI005-017014-) and the medieval quay (LI005-017072-) (Leask 1941, 101). This is marked as 'Upper Mills' on map in O'Flaherty (2010, 3, Fig. 3) where it is described as 'Newgate Lane, W. end, in Curragour Castle. Mill 14th-15th cent.' (ibid., 30). It is very closely associated with 'Golding Mill' which is also described as 'Newgate Lane, W. end, in Curragour Castle. Mill 14th-15th cent.' (ibid., 30). The two mills were described by Leask (1941, 101) as following; 'At or near the foot of Newgate Lane—the "Rue des Moulins" of the French map [Lenihan 1866, 258] — were two water mills (J on Map). They stood out from the wall [LI005-017010-] just below the Curragower reef. These mills are specifically mentioned in the Civil Survey (Simington 1938, 442-3). There seem to have been two stone houses (36ft. by 30ft. [10.8m x 9.1m] and 45ft, by 27ft. [13.7m x 8.2m]) "with two mills (wheels?) therein seated and a thatched house. The map of 1590 [TCD, MS 1209/57] shows them as "Thos. Arthur's" [LI005-017074-] and the "Queen's Mills," and connected with the city wall (LI005-017010-) by a bridge'. Both of these probably formed 'the King's Mills' mentioned by Hodkinson (2009, 23) who recorded that 'half of the mill building still exists within the grounds of City Hall, where two stubs of walls can be seen projecting out into the river (ibid.). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 19 November 2019