Survey Data
Reg No
10400402
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Mill (water)
In Use As
Hydroelectric power station
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
269993, 170470
Date Recorded
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Date Updated
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Description
Detached eleven-bay seven-storey rubble stone built former mill building, c. 1820, with segmental-headed openings and crenellated parapet. Converted to hydro-electric generation plant, c. 1891. Dismantled, pre-1990. Re-commissioned and extended c. 1990, with concrete block built turbine house added. Of historic interest on account of being the source of power to light Carlow town in 1891, the first inland town in either Ireland or Great Britain to be so lighted.