Ballyclogh Mills, County Limerick

What is recorded here

Ballyclogh Mills has iron ties across its four-storey front, the building equivalent of asking someone to hold your coat and discovering they’ve bolted you to the wall. Nobody’s breaking up this mill in a hurry.

Detached multiple-bay four-storey former mill, built c. 1760, having two-bay two-storey extension to north elevation and single-storey extension to rear (west) elevation. Pitched slate roof. Roughly dressed limestone walls with cast-iron ties to east elevation, rendered walls to north, south and rear (west) elevation. Camber-headed window openings having limestone sills and red brick block-and-start surrounds. Square-headed door openings with red brick voussoirs. Six-bay three-storey outbuilding to west having three-bay three-storey block to west elevation. Hipped corrugated-iron roof. Hipped and pitched artificial slate roof to west block. Painted rubble stone walls with cast-iron ties. Painted dressed stone walls to west block, dressed limestone walls to west elevation. Camber-headed window openings with painted stone sills, now blocked up. Camber-headed openings to west block having painted stone sills and timber casement windows.

This mill, which forms part of a large complex, retains much of its original form and structure. Its functional design is solidly constructed with high quality materials such as the roughly dressed limestone walls and brick dressings. The building serves as a physical reminder of the industrial and social history of the area, and constitutes an important element of the architectural heritage of the area.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21900608

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