Survey Data
Reg No
22826021
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Distillery
Date
1820 - 1840
Coordinates
212557, 84049
Date Recorded
21/10/2003
Date Updated
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Description
Remains of detached four-bay distillery c.1830, comprising section of random rubble stone wall on an L-shaped plan with lime mortar, red brick segmental relieving arches, and remains of round-headed window openings with red brick ‘voussoirs’, and no fittings. In use as flour mill, 1840. Decommissioned, pre-1927. Set back from road in own grounds with wall fronting on to Greagagh River.
Appraisal
Although much of the distillery building on site has been lost (no reference is made on the O.S. (1927 edition) to a practice on site suggesting that it was already decommissioned by that time), the remaining fragments are of significance as a reminder of the industrialisation of Clashmore in the early nineteenth century. Together with the surviving chimney (22826003/WD-37-26-03) and footbridge (22826020/WD-37-26-20), the structure forms a picturesque feature in the centre of the village.