I had to disable Mapwriter in order to play. I wanted to let you know because otherwise Mapwriter seems to cause extremely low levels of lag (as opposed to many other minimap mods).

is there any thing in the logs that explains why there is lag?

Nothing in the logs. In fact when I went back in and ran the mod again I had no problems. I suspect that it slowly got more and more laggy AND because I have had problems with minimap mods before I tried uninstalling mapwriter. I got good results when I restarted and thought that was it. BUT... (then I remembered) I have often before had lag with minecolonies after playing for a while. I would just restart and it would cure the problem for a while. I will continue to monitor.