mill (water)

Detached four-bay two-storey part double-pile mill, extant 1904, on an L-shaped plan; six-bay two-storey rear (north) elevation. Now in ruins. Remains of pitched double-pile (M-profile) slate roof on collared timber construction with corrugated-iron surface finish (south), pressed iron ridge, and no rainwater goods surviving on slate flagged eaves. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast coursed rubble stone battered walls with rough hewn flush quoins to corners; creeper- or ivy-covered red brick Running bond chimney (west) on a square plan with capping now missing. Square-headed window openings with concealed dressings including rough hewn lintels framing timber fittings. Set in unkempt grounds.

A mill representing an important component of the nineteenth-century industrial heritage of north County Wexford. A prolonged period of neglect notwithstanding, the elementary form and massing survive intact together with quantities of the original fabric including not only an eye-catching chimney, but also an overshot waterwheel pinpointing the engineering or technical dexterity of a mill making an increasingly forlorn visual statement in a sylvan street scene.