Corn Mill (Disused), County Cork (CO018-043----)

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On SW bank of Farahy River. Roofless, overgrown 4-storey rectangular mill (int.: 9.6m E-W; 6.55m N-S), 3-bays wide; built against steep face of river glen on S side. Windows have wooden lintels under stone-arch. Low gable on E and W end walls, with diamond-shaped window near apex. Wheel-pit (Wth 1.52m) alongside W wall; rear of pit rock-cut, with spring at base; head race drops c. 3.5m into pit which housed a high breastshot waterwheel. Two-storey grain-drying kiln (4.95m E-W; 4.95m N-S) added to W end of S wall, its ground floor at 1st-floor level of mill. Central stone-lined depression (0.93m x 0.72m) indicates position of furnace. Ledge along walls between ground and 1st floors formerly supported drying floor; door ope in 2nd floor in N wall of mill, connects mill to drying floor. Millrace taken from river c. 400m to W, just S of Farahy. Known locally as 'Carroll's Mills'; according to local information, used as handball alley in mid 20th century. Indicated as 'Corn Mill' on 1842 OS 6-inch map; marked 'disused' on 1905 OS 6-inch map.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO018-043

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