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VI. 



SOME FUETHER NOTES ON ANCIENT HORIZONTAL WATER- 

 MILLS, NATIVE AND FOREIGN. By JOSEPH P. O'REILLY, 

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(Plates II., III., and IV.) 



[Read April 14, 1902.] 



In the paper on the ' ' Milesian Colonization of Ireland considered in 

 relation to Gold Mining," read before the Royal Irish Academy, 

 January 22nd, 1900, I took occasion to cite from the work by Eugene 

 Trutat on "The French Pyrenees " the names of the tools employed by 

 the gold washers at Pamiers in the Comte de Foix, and their probable 

 Celtic derivation, with a view to show the connexion that probably 

 existed between the tribes or peoples engaged in the working of the 

 precious metals in ancient times all over Eui'ope, particularly in the 

 mountainous regions, and the consequent similarity not only in the 

 forms of the tools employed by them, but also in their names or desig- 

 nations. Convinced that this path of inquiry is capable of leading to 

 very striking as well as useful results, as regards both Archaeology and 

 Philology, I have been expecting to meet with fm-ther opportunities 

 of pursuing it, and beg to submit the following remarks as to the 

 probable origin of certain ancient Irish water-mills. The subject 

 was suggested to me by the article which appeared in the Ulster 

 Journal of Archceologrj, vol. iv., 1856, p. 6, entitled "Ancient Water- 

 Mills," from which the following details are worth citing: — 



" The accompanying drawing represents accurately an ancient 

 wooden water-wheel in the possession of Mr. James Bell, of Pros- 

 pect, near Ballymoney, county Antrim, excepting only that such 

 portions as are now imperfect, have been restored in the drawing 

 to correspond with the others. 



"It was found a number of years ago, in the bog of Moycraig, 

 within one mile of Morsside, on a farm now occupied by William 

 Hamill, and which is comprised in the district called ' The Grange of 

 Drumtullogh.' The spot is low and flat, and no]^stream is at present 

 visible near it. 



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