History
The Dodder once supplied many mills, but all are now disused: the de Meones family, who gave their name to Rathmines, owned a mill here as early as the mid-fourteenth century. In the sixteenth century much of the surrounding lands belonged to the Talbot family, ancestors of the Talbots of Mount Talbot. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Domvile family, who owned much of Templeogue, effectively controlled access to much of the river, which passed through their estates.
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