Kilfinnane Mills, chimney in County Limerick

What is recorded here

Kilfinnane Mills has a surviving chimney with a sawtooth pattern right at the top. It’s a wonderfully grand place to put fancy brickwork: the pigeons get the best seats, and every last one of them pays in insults.

Freestanding chimney, built c. 1800, comprising square-plan plinth and tapering square-plan shaft. Roughly dressed sandstone walls to plinth having brick quoins and limestone coping. Red brick walls to shaft with limestone copings and brick sawtooth motifs to apex. Square-headed opening to east elevation having brick voussoirs.

This chimney was once part of a bustling mill complex. Built by the Oliver family, the mill was destroyed by fire in 1940 after which most of the buildings were demolished. Solidly constructed and finely detailed, this chimney serves as a reminder of the industrial heritage of the area.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21812026

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