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SOME FEUDAL MILLS. 27
9. There is little more of interest to record ree^ard-
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THE CASTI F
ing the Castle Mills. The church of St. Mary del Dam mills,
Dublin.
lasted till the sixteenth century, when the residents
in the Castle formed almost its only parishioners ;
the Gate del Dam and the Castle Mills, as kings'
mills, enduring a century later. The latter, in the
form of two little hursts on the stream to the east of
the Castle near Dame Street, are shown (as well as
^- Modem.
other places mentioned in this account) in a plan of Text, ante, p. 4
the Crown
Dublin dated 1601. They were worked by
till 1639, when they were granted by Charles I. to
the corporation ; being
then known as Dame's Mills
in Dame Street. Till the middle of the eighteenth.
century they yielded to the corporation a rental of ^20
per annum, the dam producing £4. per annum.