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Corn Mills, on opposite side of river from St John's C of I Church

Glynn, Mid and East Antrim, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Corn Mills, on opposite side of river from St John's C of I Church, Glynn, Mid and East Antrim, 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
Outbuildings
Date of construction
1820 - 1839
Address
Corn Mills, on opposite side of river from St John's C of I Church, Glynn, Larne, Co Antrim
Townland
Glynn
Council
Mid and East Antrim
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.82599, -5.81241
Date of survey
04 September 1997
HB reference
HB06/06/013

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1811 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1817 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1824 · Scotland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1825 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A plain rectangular gabled building, originally a corn mill, but now a playground shelter, with a mill wheel of iron with wooden spokes attached to the south gable. Concrete tiled roof, dry dash finish to walls. Open doorway without doors. It stands in a children’s play-park. Described in the first survey in 1970 as 'A black and white stone building with slated roof; retains a water wheel beside one gable'.

Historical information

Appeared on OS map of 1832.

References - Primary

1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 40.
2. Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland: Parishes of County Antrim X, Vol 26 (Belfast, 19940, pp 5, 37-38.

Secondary

1. IHR 6974.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Much altered former corn mill now of little architectural interest.

Nearby in the register

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

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