Glenvale Mill

Desert, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland

The record

Designation: Record only (not listed)
Grade: Record Only
Type: Demolished
Date of construction: 1840 - 1859
Address: Glenvale Mill, Benagh Road, Donaghmore, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2RG
Townland: Desert
Council: Newry, Mourne and Down
Country: Northern Ireland
Coordinates: 54.19652, -6.27426
Date of survey: 10 February 2000
HB reference: HB16/14/031

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

Demolished. No trace now survives of former corn mill and kilns.

Historical information

Remains of buildings demolished several years ago. HMBB survey card of 1972 notes that erected by Mr Glenny in 1842 on the site of an earlier corn mill (shown on 1834 OS map). It is described as “Ruins of stone buildings, part harled with brick dressings and slated roofs surmounted by two pyramidal roof ventilators. Varies from five storeys to three storeys.” 1986 survey card notes: “Five-storey flour mill powered by internal 14ft dia breast-shot wheel in adjoining three-storey building. Three-storey kiln abuts at east end, as does one at north return to five-storey mill. One kiln reasonably intact. Mill fire gutted, with little surviving machinery. Roof and floors gone, and increasingly ruinous. Apparently operational until early 1960s.”

Primary Sources:
1. HMBB survey card dated 14 Dec 1972.
2. Ditto, dated 9 June 1986.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Demolished

Nearby in the register

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

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