Flour Mills — Parksgrove

The record identifies Flour Mills — Parksgrove as Water mill — unclassified. It does not safely name every person, family or worker who used it, or fix all phases to exact years.

The recorded type points to a work place that turned water, hand or other power into useful grinding or making. That explains the likely everyday purpose without claiming people, tools or customs that the exact record does not prove.

The saved source says: On the Down Survey (1655-6) Donoghmore parish map, there is a watermill depicted on the W bank of the River Nore, at the W end of Ballyragget Bridge (KK010-139002-) and appears to be on the S end of a mill race. A 'Flour Mills' is indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map at the W end of Ballyragget Bridge and at the S end of a long mill race (L c. 240m). No building is shown there on the 1947 revision, though a flour mill is indicated at this location on the 25-inch OS map. The building has since been removed. This flour mill may have dated from the 17th century or could have been an 18th/19th-century mill roughly at the same location as the mill depicted on the Down Survey map. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 14 January 2019

The saved record does not establish one certain ending. A change in farming, water level, trade, fuel, ownership, route or settlement pattern may have ended the use, but no single cause is claimed without evidence.

Flour Mills — Parksgrove fixes a real piece of work or daily life to an exact place. Even where names are lost, its remains show how people obtained food and materials, organised land, made homes or adapted to the local ground.