Survey Data
Reg No
22106009
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical
Previous Name
Mullinahone Courthouse
Original Use
Mill (water)
Historical Use
Court house
Date
1750 - 1790
Coordinates
233572, 140225
Date Recorded
05/10/2006
Date Updated
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Description
Attached five-bay three-storey with attic former watermill, built c.1770. Pitched slate roof with limestone eaves course and cast-iron rainwater goods. Rendered rubble limestone walls with roughly dressed quoins. Blocked square-headed window openings, with part rubble limestone and part brick surrounds. Round-arch doorway with brick voussoirs. Flight of steps to west gable, giving access to first floor, with sawn timber lintel and timber battened door. Five-bay single-storey former market house attached to north.
Appraisal
This building appears to have started out as a watermill, later being used as a barracks at the time of the 1798 rebellion and as a courthouse until 1922. It housed British military during the War of Independence. It is therefore a building of considerable historic resonance in the county.