Survey Data
Reg No
22400203
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Mill (water)
Date
1820 - 1870
Coordinates
203250, 207921
Date Recorded
16/07/2004
Date Updated
--/--/--
Description
Twelve-bay six-storey corn mill, built c.1830, rebuilt substantially c.1850, having two-storey addition to southeast. Now vacant and disused. Hipped slate roof to main mill building, unroofed to addition, with cast-iron rainwater goods. Coursed limestone rubble walls with vents to eaves. Square-headed window openings with yellow brick surrounds and limestone sills, some barred and some retaining small-pane timber windows. Heavy timber board floors and large timber supports intact to lower floors. Millrace runs along southwest elevation, with sluice at roadside. Three-bay two-storey miller's house to southwest with pitched slate roof and replacement timber door and windows.
Appraisal
An impressive and imposing mill situated beside Derrinsallow Bridge on the Little Brosna River. Despite the fact that the mill has been empty and unused for many years the use of a robust design and high quality materials has ensured the survival of the building, including much of the interior. Although many water-powered mills were built in Ireland in the early nineteenth century the corn mill at Derrinsallow is larger than usual.