Survey Data
Reg No
20822002
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Mill (water)
In Use As
Apartment/flat (converted)
Date
1830 - 1835
Coordinates
180897, 92024
Date Recorded
28/02/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Detached nine-bay three-storey former watermill, dated 1833. Southern three bays are later addition. Building part of larger structure that extended to west. Pitched reslated roof. Rubble limestone and sandstone walls, with roughly dressed quoins to older block and squarer blocks to later part. Roughly dressed voussoirs to camber-arched openings, now squared off and having replacement windows. Recent wide openings added to ground floor of east, roadside, elevation. Replacement doors to openings in west elevation. Tie bars between floors. Carved liemstone plaque to south gable reads 'Rathcormac Manor Mills 1833'.
Appraisal
This industrial building is a reminder of the once-extensive milling industry in North Cork. Its basic form has been retained and the plaque, perhaps dating the later phase, adds important context.