Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Former Mill
Derrychier, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Mill
- Date of construction
- 1800 - 1819
- Address
- Former Mill, Derrychier Road, Derrychier, Dungiven, Co Londonderry
- Townland
- Derrychier
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.91535, -6.96848
- Date of survey
- 21 July 2000
- HB reference
- HB02/05/020
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A former corn and tuck mill with fast flowing mill race driving an electric turbine.
The former L plan mill is ruinous though much of the walls are standing but overgrown. It is assumed that the former mill wheel was on the millrace side and may have been external to the building. The mill race is extant along with the remains of the flume. However the millrace from the former flume position is piped to cross under the Derrychier Road to drive a turbine on the other side where a small contemporary hut contains the control gear for the electricity generated.
The owner uses the electricity for his own purposes. His farmhouse is a short distance away on the Glenshane Road.
The millrace is complete with sluices, overflows etc and comes quite a distance through fields from a weir further upstream on the Owenbeg River.
Historical information
A corn mill and tuck mill is indicated on this site, including mill race, on the O.S. Map 1830. The O.S. Memoirs refers to a 13 foot diameter breast fed water wheel supplying a flax mill.
I H R No. 1951
References
Primary Sources
1. O.S. Map 1830 Londonderry sh. 30.
2. O.S. Memoirs of Ireland, Parishes of Londonderry X, 1833-34, 1838
Ed by Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams, Q.U.B. p. 127
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Remains of an early 19th cent. corn and tuck mill. The mill race is of interest in that it is still in use driving a contemporary turbine.
Nearby in the register
- Derrychier BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- Standing StonesStanding Stoneunder 1 mi
- The Old RectoryHouseunder 1 mi
- The Old Rectory – OutbuildingsOutbuildingsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.