Indicated — Gormanston

Situated on a S-facing slope down to the W-E River Delvin which is c. 75m distant. It is also on the E bank of a mill-race that originated far upstream and an overflow mill-race is on its E side. According to the Civil Survey (1654) in 1641 Lord Gormanston, an Irish Papist, owned 390 acres at Gormanston, and on the premises were a stone house with outhouses, by which is meant the castle, about ‘20 farm houses in the town’ and two water mills (Simington 1940, 10). A functioning corn mill is marked here W of the Balrothery to Drogheda road on the 1836 and 1908 editions of the OS 6-inch map. The mill was known as Arnold’s mill from a tenant named Arnold who was evicted from it in 1881 (B. Matthews, Drogheda Independent, 07/05/1999). A direct connection with the seventeenth century mill cannot be established but is very likely. The remains of a small structure still survives, overgrown with ivy (pers. com. I. Lennon 14/02/2013). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload; 11 April, 2023 Simington, R. C. 1940 The Civil Survey AD 1654-1658 vol. 5, County of Meath. Stationary Office, Dublin