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Flax Mill

Derry City and Strabane, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Flax Mill, Derry City and Strabane, 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

Designation
Record only (not listed)
Grade
Record Only
Type
No type recorded
Address
Flax Mill, Raspberry Hill TD
Council
Derry City and Strabane
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.88983, -7.26796
Date of survey
24 July 2014
HB reference
HB01/02/031

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1881 map "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A former flax mill, now demolished and replaced with a modern split-level dwelling. The iron waterwheel and part of the west gable remains.

The First Survey card records:

A small rubble greystone building with brick dressings and slated roof. There is an iron mill wheel on the west gable. The bridge of similar material has roughly dressed voissurs to the semi-circular arch. Copings are of vertical stones rendered on top. River is the Cloghagh Burn.

Date of visit: 16.05.1972

Historical information

N/A

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A former flax mill, now mostly demolished and replaced with a modern split-level dwelling. The iron waterwheel and part of the west gable remains.

General comments

Partial survey only - A former flax mill, now mostly demolished and replaced with a modern split-level dwelling. The iron waterwheel and part of the west gable remains.

Nearby in the register

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

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