Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Water-wheel at Moylinny
Moylinny, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Mill
- Date of construction
- 1840 - 1859
- Address
- Water-wheel at Moylinny, off Nursery Park, Muckamore, Antrim, Co Antrim
- Townland
- Moylinny
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.70045, -6.19895
- Date of survey
- 06 November 2004
- HB reference
- HB20/08/065
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 1838 "Ireland, north sheet." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A water-wheel constructed of cast iron and timber, in a derelict condition.
SETTING: It stands partly below and partly above ground level beside a path which runs along the northern bank of the Six Mile Water river, in a wooded area reached by a path from an 'office park'.
Historical information
Precise date of construction not recorded but it appears on the OS map of 1857. The wheel was originally attached to a 2-storey stone-built hipped roofed building which had fallen into a derelict condition by the 1980s and was demolished sometime after 1982.
References – Primary Sources
1. OS Map 1832, Co Antrim 50.
Secondary Sources
1. IHR 7194.
2. Heather Thompson, Weaving Webs of Wealth (Antrim, 1982), p 48.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
This is a water-wheel in a derelict condition, which was originally part of a 2-storey stone-built mill but the building has now been demolished thus leaving the water-wheel bereft of its original context and setting and its architectural and historic value thereby greatly diminished.
Nearby in the register
- The Old RectoryHouseunder 1 mi
- Moylinny MillHouseunder 1 mi
- 30 Greenmount RoadUniversity/ College Buildingunder 1 mi
- 31 Greenmount RoadUniversity/ College Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.