The Introduction of the Vertical Watermill into Ireland: Some Recent Archaeological Evidence

Rynne, Colin

doi:10.1080/00766097.1989.11735515

Medieval Archaeology

1989

DOI: 10.1080/00766097.1989.11735515

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The Introduction of the Vertical Watermill into Ireland: Some Recent Archaeological Evidence

Colin Rynne¹

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“…14 This latter was based mainly on the evidence from the Morett example, which he believed to be a horizontalwheeled mill but which was demonstrably of the vertical undershot type. 15 There is also clearcut archaeological and documentary evidence that early horizontalwheeled mills in Ireland employed water abstracted from springs as a source of power. The Old Irish term topur (Mod.…”

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Water-Power as a Factor of Industrial Location in Early Medieval Ireland: The Environment of the Early Irish Water Mill

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Industrial Archaeology Review

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It has long been known that certain water-powered mill sites, owing to the suitability of their water supply, have continued in use since the later medieval period. But when, exactly, did medieval millwrights begin to make empirical observations on the effi cacy of a particular source of hydro-power and, indeed, on the very site of the mill itself? In the present paper, important new archaeological evidence from early medieval Ireland (c. AD 600-1100), is used to demonstrate that conscious decisions on the location of mills employing various types of freshwater and estuarine supplies were already being made by the early decades of the 7th century AD. Furthermore, not only were increasingly more challenging locations being adapted for use by early medieval Irish millwrights, but the availability of water-power had already become an important factor in the choice of site for larger monasteries.

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Early watermills – an archaeological indication of taxation?

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The Introduction of the Vertical Watermill into Ireland: Some Recent Archaeological Evidence

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