mills historical ireland

This historic property, founded in 1919, is now owned by the National Trust and the last working water-driven spade mill in Ireland. Guided tours show the whole fascinating process from heating a block of metal in the forge through to the finished product, while an exhibition on site reveals some of the history and culture of this humble spade. In addition you can explore the mill race and even buy a turf garden spade on site.

Through guided tours, the fascinating process of spade m...

There is a fully restored water powered sawmill on the Florence Court estate, dating from the 19th Century. The sound of the water wheel turning carries across the Pleasure Ground. Nearby is a hydraulic ram which was used to pump water up to the house, and also an ice house....

The building dates from the late 18th century, but milling has been carried out on the site since 1558 when Thomas Martin was granted a plot of ground here on which to build a mill, subject to a rent of four pence a year. It lay derelict for a number of years but is now fully restored with important features such as the millwheel retained....

The very damaged remains of a mortered stone building, possibly square in shape, with well-built walls, and the remains of a doorway on the east side. There was possibly a paddle-wheel turning in a channel, connected to a shaft in a cogwheel inside the building....

This old mill with its Danish architecture dates back to about the 11th Century and was a focal point in the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the farming community. In the early 19th Century there was a brewery and distillery on this site....

Set in a picturesque wooded glen on the banks of the Ballinderry River, west of Cookstown, stands Wellbrook the last working beetling mill in Northern Ireland....

On the western side of Corranroo Bay are the ruins of another mill that continued operating until the 1920's. On the wall is an inscribed stone slab that reads - B.B.Esq. 1804 - ; the reference is most likely to Bartholomew de Basterot....