|The Hill of Tara|
The Mill was constructed in the 3rd Century at the request of Cormac Mac Airt, King of Tara, and I believe it was located at a site beside Tara Hall at the place where the Nith stream descends into the Nith Glen. The evidence from the historical documents certainly suggests this, but is it possible? Was the site suitable for a mill? What would it have looked like and how would it have operated?
In order to explore these questions we first have to look at the milling technology of the early Medieval period. In their book 'A New History of Ireland, Prehistoric and early Ireland', Dáibhí Ó Cróinín and Theodore William Moody set out the milling technology that was becoming common in Ireland by the 6th and 7th Century.