Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mill - corn
Curragh (duhallow By., Clonfert Par.) , County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Curragh (duhallow By., Clonfert Par.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Quarry house Mill (Corn) (1937)
- Coordinates
- 52.17944, -8.90901
- SMR number
- CO023-327----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In Kanturk, on N side of River Dalua; skirted by road to SW. Three-storey mill (long axis NE-SW); access to interior not gained. SW elevation, facing road, is double-gable-ended; NE side has slated roof but NW side roofless. Side elevation (SE) is 9 bays long. Yard on SE side enclosed by high stone wall, with entrance gateway along roadside. Three-storey 6-bay addition along roadside; wide arched doorway; windows blocked up; apparently roofless. According to O'Sullivan (1984, 84), built as auxiliary work house in early 19th-century on site of quarry. Electrically powered until 1910; accidentally burnt in 1967 (ibid.); now partially used as a store.
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
- Mill - cornunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.