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of a solid block of oak, and two holes, f, f, in one of its ends, 
through which the water escaped. 
There is not any person at present living who remembers to 
have heard of this mill. A respectable farmer of the name of Dwyre, 
aged about 65 years, and who now holds that farm (as he did since 
his father’s death) never knew of such an edifice having been 
there. He distinctly remembers his father and grandfather, both 
of whom held this farm, yet he never heard them speak of any mill 
having been there. Its antiquity may also be well deduced from 
the fact of the spindle having been made of wood, as well as from 
the shape of the stone. Doctor Ledwich* says that the mills, men- 
tioned in Cambrensis to have been in Ireland in his time, seem to 
have been water-mills, erected by the monks, and to which the vi- 
cinity resorted. Long before the time of Saint Cuilen, who, ac- 
cording to Colgan, built Glankeen church, there was an Abbey 
founded here, as appears by the Monasticum Hibernicum,-+ so early 
as the time of Saint Patrick. It is not improbable but that the one 
just described might have been used by the clergy belonging to the 
adjacent church of Glankeen for the purpose of grinding their 
corn. 
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* Antiq. p. 375. + Fo. 46. 
