mills historical ireland

Craanford Mill is a 17th century watermill housed in a domestic scale structure. This corn-grinding mill has been restored to full working order. The works are on view to visitors with interpretive data, explanatory exhibits and wholesome food served on the kiln loft.

The Flagstone floors have been worn by 200 years of shuffling feet, the stairs creek in mild complaint and on one side of the room, sacks of freshly ground meal slouch against each other, Outside the mill wheel waits for...

Welcome to Kerry Woollen Mills where you can view skills that have been in existence for hundreds of years, as well as purchase high quality goods that will serve as a long lasting reminder of your trip to 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...

These mills are early 19th century tall structures of rough-cut limestone....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....