Site no OFIAR-042-008 Mill Park - Offaly County Council

Component OFIAR-044-007 2TypeMill houseFunctionGrain millingCategory Food processing & products Context IndustryIrish Grid 199201 185806 +/- 10mSurvey date 01/08/2003SurveyorFred HamondBuildingWaterworksPlantMachineryDescriptionRemains Complete Condition Good Use DwellingRemains N/A Condition N/A Use N/ARemains N/A Condition N/A Use N/ARemains N/A Condition N/A Use N/ASouth of the mill is a two-storey, three-bay mill house aligned north-south. Hippednatural slate roof with two chimneys and aluminium gutters. Rendered random rubblewalls. Principal façade faces west and is symmetrical. Entrance to centre of façade,with 8-panel timber door and spoked overlight. Flanked to each side and to first floorwith 6/6 sash windows.InterestEvaluationTechnicalThis mill is primarily of interest because of the survival of its waterwheel and the factthat it bears its maker's name. It is of local industrial heritage signficance and aProtected Structure in the Co Offaly Development Plan 2009-15.RatingLocalProtection Offaly RPS 63-08 ActionAssociated withOther dbase NIAH 14944011 (R)ReferencesO'Riain, S. Dunkerrin: a Parish in Ely O'Carroll (Dunkerrin: Dunkerrin HistoryCommittee, 1988).Valuation Mill Book, 1840s. Reproduced by Hogg, W. The Millers and Millsof Ireland c.1850 (Dublin, 2000).Page(s) 74Page(s)OFIAR-044-007_01 FWH 01/08/2003 General view of mill from south-west.