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The Nendrum Monastery mill was a tide mill on an Mahee Island in Strangford Lough (modern Northern Ireland). It is the earliest excavated tide mill, dating from 787 AD. Its millstones are 830mm in diameter and the horizontal wheel is estimated to have developed 7/8HP at its peak. Remains of an earlier mill dated at 619 AD were also found.

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Nendrum Monastery mill

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The Nendrum Monastery mill was a tide mill on an Mahee Island in Strangford Lough (modern Northern Ireland). It is the earliest excavated tide mill, dating...

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Nendrum Monastery

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Nendrum Monastery (Irish: Naondroim) was a Christian monastery on Mahee Island in Strangford Lough, County Down, Northern Ireland. Medieval records say...

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Tide mill

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mill was found that was powered by a vertical undershot wheel. The Nendrum Monastery mill from 787 was situated on an island in Strangford Lough in Northern...

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Watermill

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was found which was powered by a vertical undershot wheel. The Nendrum Monastery mill from 787 was situated on an island in Strangford Lough in Northern...

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Medieval technology

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horizontal-wheeled mill (c. 630) and a vertical undershot waterwheel alongside it. Another early example is the Nendrum Monastery mill from 787 which is...

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Strangford Lough was also the site of the first known tide mill in the world, the Nendrum Monastery mill where remains dating from 787 CE have been excavated...

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Water wheel

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power was the Nendrum Monastery mill in Northern Ireland which has been dated to 787, although a possible earlier mill dates to 619. Tide mills became common...

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List of oldest buildings in the United Kingdom

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List of early medieval watermills

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Mills at Nendrum Monastery, Strangford Lough, Belfast: Stationery Office Books, ISBN 978-0-337-08877-3 Murphy, Donald (2005), Excavations of a Mill at...

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List of monastic houses in Ireland

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Monastery Magheralin Monastery Moneyscalp Friary (approx.) Nendrum Monastery / Nendrum Priory Newry Abbey Newry Carmelite Monastery NEWTOWNARDS (see right]...

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multiple years The volcanic winter of 536 619 Tide mill of Nendrum Monastery (oldest known tide mill) 737 to 968 3 phases of construction between 737 and...

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Comber

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Northern Ireland by population List of civil parishes of County Down Nendrum Monastery Wikimedia Commons has media related to Comber. Official Report Monday...

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Mahee Island, Nendrum Monastery monastic site (area surrounding the State Care Monument), grid ref: J5245 6364 Mahee Island, Tide mill, grid ref: J5255...

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List of museums in Northern Ireland

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the National Trust Nendrum Monastic Site Strangford Lough Down Archaeology, Religious Operated by the NIEA, ruins of medieval monastery and visitor centre...

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