Technological Continuity, Technological 'Survival
The Use of Horizontal Mills in Western Ireland, c . 1632–1940
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9359172 |
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| Authors | Colin Rynne (University College Cork, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 96-105 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial Archaeology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-0728 • E-ISSN: 1745-8196 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/174581911x13188747258748 |
| OpenAlex | W1993257315 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This article discusses the continued use of the early medieval horizontal waterwheel form, well into the post-medieval period in the Atlantic Provinces of the British Isles. It argues that archaeological and documentary evidence demonstrates that the horizontal mills of western Ireland represent the continued use of this technology from the early medieval period in to modern times. Similarly, it argues that the traditional horizontal mills of Scotland and its western islands can, on linguistic grounds, be linked into the same enduring tradition. The continued use of this technology in these societies appears to be as much a product of social context and choice, as it was a technological 'survival' in a 'marginalised' area
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Documentary evidence · Geography · Horizontal and vertical · Middle Ages · Period (music · Product (mathematics · Sociology · Technological change · Western europe · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
| Highly cited | No |
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