Mill in Ballyannymore

Mill (water)

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Detached L-plan four-storey flour mill with attic storey, built c.1820, having four-bay northeast elevation and three-bay southeast and southwest elevations. Probable site of wheel pit with segmental-arch opening for axle, and remains of lean-to addition, to northwest. Half-hipped roof with no surviving structure or covering. Coursed rubble limestone walls, dressed snecked limestone to northwest wall of southwestern half, with dressed quoins. Date-stone ex-situ at southwest. Round-arch windows to north wall of western half and to ground floor of southeast elevation, square-headed elsewhere, with dressed limestone voussoirs and tooled limestone sills, having bars to some southwest windows. Round-arch doorway in southwest elevation and recent wide doorway in southeast. Mill reached by long raised causeway with millrace visible to north side of southern stretch. Rubble limestone outbuilding to southwest with pitched slate roof and open-sided front. Single-storey square-plan possible miller's house to southeast with three-bay front elevation, slated roof having double rear gable, rubble limestone walls and remains of timber sliding sash windows.

Although roofless, this impressive and large watermill displays some well-crafted limestone walling. The small square windows are typical of industrial structures. The date-stone sets the mill firmly within the context of the expansion of milling in the Napoleonic era. Its accompanying, albeit later associated buildings form part of the setting of the milling operation. The causeway giving access to the mill from Ballyartella Bridge is of particular historic and landscape interest and formerly served several farmyards along its course.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 22401440

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