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Blackwater Mill

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Blackwater Mill
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Blackwater Mill in Abbeyland South puts a ploughman above the door while the water does the work of running a six-storey mill. Grand job for the fellow in the picture: stay dry, look busy, take the credit. He’d go far in management.

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Detached eleven-bay six-storey water mill, built 1783, with remains of cast-iron water wheel. Five-bay five-storey and six-bay six-storey extensions to south with ridge-high firewalls. Various mid-twentieth-century single-storey extensions. Double-pitched roof, natural slates with double span roof to extensions, monopitched and double-pitched corrugated iron roofs to extensions, cross wall fire breaks. Coursed rubble, inscribed round stone plaque - 'Connolly Clarke, Fay 1783' to southernmost extension. No cills, brick dressing to segmental-headed window opes, remains of sash windows and timber grills, T & G deal door, oval metal plaque above door ope depicting ploughman and plough, T & G deal shutters.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14006030

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Rob Hurson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; 瑞丽江的河水, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Aubrey Martin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Albert Bridge, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Kieran Campbell, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0

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