I went to look at a corn mill, but didn’t do the main building, just the attached turbine house.
Nevertheless the mill is an interesting-looking place in a grey Irish sort of way although views through a couple of the windows didn’t seem promising.
So the turbine house then - the mill is shown in 1907 as taking water both from the River Aughrim and one of its tributaries.
While the original mill on this site would have been powered by a water wheel the current mill was built ca 1870 so could have been turbine-powered from the outset.
The water runs in a covered headrace through the concrete turbine house back to the river.
There seem to have been two turbines, one fed by a pipe running beside and below the main headrace which ends at an empty plinth.
The other one is still there, a Gilkes, probably driving a generator in the concrete box above.
The mill stopped working in 1963 - there were plans to convert it in 2005 but nothing has happened to date.
Maybe there’s still stuff inside if you can be bothered to make the climb.
Nevertheless the mill is an interesting-looking place in a grey Irish sort of way although views through a couple of the windows didn’t seem promising.
So the turbine house then - the mill is shown in 1907 as taking water both from the River Aughrim and one of its tributaries.
While the original mill on this site would have been powered by a water wheel the current mill was built ca 1870 so could have been turbine-powered from the outset.
The water runs in a covered headrace through the concrete turbine house back to the river.
There seem to have been two turbines, one fed by a pipe running beside and below the main headrace which ends at an empty plinth.
The other one is still there, a Gilkes, probably driving a generator in the concrete box above.
The mill stopped working in 1963 - there were plans to convert it in 2005 but nothing has happened to date.
Maybe there’s still stuff inside if you can be bothered to make the climb.
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