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Mill - woollen

Ballincurrig (Barrymore By.), County Cork, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Mill - woollen, Ballincurrig, 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
Ballincurrig (Barrymore By.)
County
Cork
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Woollen Factory (1936)
Coordinates
51.98807, -8.22794
SMR number
CO054-125----

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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)
  • 1865 · Ireland, (South) Sheet. (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)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Roadside, on N bank of Owennacurra river, just SW of Ballincurrig. Indicated on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Complex of buildings survive. Rectangular mill (long axis N-S) on S side; 3-storey, 6-bays; gable ended. Wheel-pit for vertical waterwheel along N gable; now occupied by turbine. Power house attached at N end of W elevation with tall brick chimney. Attached to this is another structure which houses a National Gas and Oil Engine. Interior of mill empty; floors intact. Additions to S. Number of other structures survive including toilets suspended over river's edge to S; substantial store house to N; 2-storey roadside residence to E and a number of modern buildings. Abandoned 1971.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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