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Coolowen Mill

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Coolowen Mill
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Detached gable-fronted three-bay double-height former mill, built c. 1860, now ruinous. Rubble stone walls. Square-headed window openings with brick block-and-start surrounds and voussoirs. Mill wheel in situ. Multiple-bay single-storey outbuilding to east bank of river having remains of pitched slate roof, rubble stone walls, square-headed openings, and machinery to interior.
One of a group of interesting structures associated with Monard and Coolowen Ironworks, part of spade and shovel manufacturing enterprise established by Abraham Beale in the late eighteenth century. Closed late as 1960. Last enterprise in Ireland to employ waterwheels commercially and produced spades until 1960. Interesting feature in landscape retaining wheel.

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