mill (water)

Detached three-bay two-storey water mill, built c.1820. Now out of use and derelict. Pitched natural slate roof, now collapsed. Coursed rubble limestone walls with brick dressings to openings. Square-headed window and door openings. Central segmental-headed waterwheel arch with brick voussoirs to east elevation. Remains of cast-iron machinery to interior.Ruins of small corn kiln on square plan to adjacent to south. Set back from road in own grounds adjacent to small country road west.

This small-scale former corn mill represents an integral component of the industrial heritage of Westmeath and helps to add an historic feel to the local area. This modest ruin retains its early form despite being out of use for a considerable period of time. The brick voussoirs to the wheel arch suggest that this mill may have been altered during the second half of the nineteenth century. The irregular fenestration pattern and the sturdy masonry construction help to lend this assuming structure a vernacular character. The retention of some of the early cast-iron machinery to the interior and the ruins of the corn kiln are of technical and engineering merit. This small-scale mill was in the ownership of Thomas Wynne and had a fifteen foot in diameter waterwheel and two grinding stones c.1850 (Valuation Office Mill Book No.21).