mills historical ireland

Ireland's most picturesque cornmill is to be found beside Annalong harbour at the foot of the Mourne Mountains. Built in the early 1800s, it operated until the 1960's, being one of Ulster's last working watermills. The complex contains a grain-drying kiln and 3 pairs of millstones. It is powered by a 15ft waterwheel (a form of technology over 2000 years old) and a 1920's Marshall 'hot-bulb' 20hp engine.
Acquired by Newry and Mourne District Council, restoration began in 1983, and it re...

This old mill with its Danish architecture dates back to about the 11th Century and was a focal point in the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the farming community. In the early 19th Century there was a brewery and distillery on this site....

Upon arrival each visitor is shown how to bake a loaf of Brown Bread. Each person's loaf is then put on the oven while a tour of the mill takes place.
The actual tour gives a comprehensive understanding of how the mill works from the receiving of the grain to the cleaning, drying, sieving, grinding and eventual bagging of the finished product (flour).

The few subtle changes in the day-to-day running of the mill from Victorian modern times are explained, as are the workings of t...

Just opposite the castle, there was once a cornmill, powered by the waters of the Ward River, which serviced the needs of the local farmers....

There is a fully restored water powered sawmill on the Florence Court estate, dating from the 19th Century. The sound of the water wheel turning carries across the Pleasure Ground. Nearby is a hydraulic ram which was used to pump water up to the house, and also an ice house....

The very damaged remains of a mortered stone building, possibly square in shape, with well-built walls, and the remains of a doorway on the east side. There was possibly a paddle-wheel turning in a channel, connected to a shaft in a cogwheel inside the building....

An old flour mill beside the lake at Mountbellew located on the back road to the forest, over which a duel was fought between a member of the Bellew family and the Darcy family who were landlords in Mountbellew and New Forest. An inscribed plaque on this mill wall tells of the marriages of Dillons, Gratten Belows and Hores....

On the western side of Corranroo Bay are the ruins of another mill that continued operating until the 1920's. On the wall is an inscribed stone slab that reads - B.B.Esq. 1804 - ; the reference is most likely to Bartholomew de Basterot....

Abbey Assaroe was founded by Cistercian Monks from Boyle Abbey in the late 12th century. In 1989 the Abbey Mill Restoration Trust acquired the derelict Mills, restoring the mill buildings and water wheels for use as an Auditorium and Coffee Shop. At the Auditorium a video film on the Heritage of the Monastery and Mill can be viewed on request....