mill (water)

Detached three-bay three-storey double-pile mill, extant 1840, on a square plan originally three-bay two-storey single-pile on a rectangular plan. In use, 1911. Now in ruins. Pitched double-pile (M-profile) roof with fragments of slate finish, part creeper or ivy-covered coping to gables, and no rainwater goods surviving on red brick header bond eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls with red brick quoins to corners; mass concrete walls (top floor). Square-headed window openings with red brick block-and-start surrounds. Interior in ruins. Set in overgrown grounds.

The shell of a mill representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century industrial heritage of north County Wexford. Although reduced to ruins following a prolonged period of neglect, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric including the framework of a waterwheel pinpointing the engineering or technical dexterity of a mill making an increasingly forlorn visual statement in a sylvan setting.