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Mill - unclassified

Farahy, County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mill - unclassified, Farahy, County Cork, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Farahy
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Corn Mill (Disused) (1936)
Coordinates
52.24283, -8.44603
SMR number
CO018-043----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

On SW bank of Farahy River. Roofless, overgrown 4-storey rectangular mill (int.: 9.6m E-W; 6.55m N-S), 3-bays wide; built against steep face of river glen on S side. Windows have wooden lintels under stone-arch. Low gable on E and W end walls, with diamond-shaped window near apex. Wheel-pit (Wth 1.52m) alongside W wall; rear of pit rock-cut, with spring at base; head race drops c. 3.5m into pit which housed a high breastshot waterwheel. Two-storey grain-drying kiln (4.95m E-W; 4.95m N-S) added to W end of S wall, its ground floor at 1st-floor level of mill. Central stone-lined depression (0.93m x 0.72m) indicates position of furnace. Ledge along walls between ground and 1st floors formerly supported drying floor; door ope in 2nd floor in N wall of mill, connects mill to drying floor. Millrace taken from river c. 400m to W, just S of Farahy. Known locally as 'Carroll's Mills'; according to local information, used as handball alley in mid 20th century. Indicated as 'Corn Mill' on 1842 OS 6-inch map; marked 'disused' on 1905 OS 6-inch map.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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