Baron Granarde of Westmeath
1556-57 59. Grant to Sir Richard Nugent, Baron of
Delvin,
of all lordships, castles, forts, houses, lands, tenements, fisheries, moors, mountains, commons, customs, and
other hereditaments -whatsoever, in the towns or fields of
Kilthorne,
the Grange of
Kilthorne,
Belgarde, Collour, Faghley, Balmagythan, Great Milton, Little Milton, Gillerston, alias Gillardston, and Vallany,
in the county of Westmeath; and the profits and perquisites of the court of the manor or lordship of Belgarde, a
fee-farm rent of .£3 arising out of the town of Foure, and all profits to the castles, lordships, and forts
appertaining or belonging;
the site, precinct, and possessions of the monastery of Granarde, with all castles,
forts, messuages, churches, chapels, fisheries, weirs, and other hereditaments in Granard, Tonaghmore, Ryncole,
Cowldony, Cloncrawe, Derraghe, and Ballymanna, and two quarters or cartrons with a water mill on Lykebla; to hold
to the said Richard Nugent and his heirs male, in capite, by knight's service, that is to say, by
the twentieth part of a knight's fee, as scutage runs ; reserving to the Crown all
mines of gold and silver, if any should be found on the premises
Map of the Killasonna region grant below:
including Cooldoney, Rincolagh etc.
 
Likebla or Lykebla Water Mill - Now Likbla ?
‘The precise location of a medieval watermill in the townland of Lickbla has not been
identified. A 1558 land grant to Sir Richard Nugent, Baron of Delvin included ‘a water-mill in Likebla’ (Morrin
1861, 395). There appears to have been two mills located in Lickbla. In 1647 a fine of £15 was levied on a group of
mills in Co. Westmeath to pay Captain Ignatius Nugent of the Irish Confederate Army. The sum of £3 5s 4d. was
levied on 'Lady of Glancoe, or her tenants, two mills in Lickbla' (Cal. S.P. Ire., 624). The 19th century corn
mills beside Lickbla House may have been located on or close to the site of the medieval mill.’
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