Metalworking site in Ballyine

In his report on the two mill-structures discovered in 1959 (LI028-118---; LI028-119---), Walsh also noted 'considerable evidence of ancient iron-smelting- slag and furnace-bottoms- in the field west of that in which the above structures were discovered' (Walsh 1965, 24). Rynne (1998, 82-3) compared the Ballyine mill with a number of iron-working mills in England, though the recovery of two fragments of millstone from Ballyine suggests that this was a grain mill. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011