Survey Data
Reg No
12401307
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Mill (water)
Date
1700 - 1839
Coordinates
235849, 163618
Date Recorded
01/01/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Archival Description [Demolished June 2005]: Detached four- or seven-bay seven-storey mill, extant 1839, on a rectangular plan; four- or seven-bay seven-storey rear (south) elevation. Disused, 1900. Now in ruins. Hipped gabled roof now missing. Part creeper- or ivy-covered coursed or snecked limestone battered walls with cut-limestone flush quoins to corners. Square-headed opposing door openings (west) with overgrown thresholds, and drag edged tooled cut-limestone block-and-start surrounds centred on keystones with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings with lichen-spotted cut-limestone sills, and red brick voussoirs with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.
Appraisal
Archival Appraisal [Demolished June 2005]: The shell of a mill representing an important component of the industrial heritage of County Kilkenny.