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Another from the backlog - a little rural mill said to date from ca. 1800, but other than that I’ve found no useful information. Photos are phone and, as usual, are literally a summary of what’s inside and how it worked. The ca. 1900 map below shows a separate kiln - the building is still...

This is similar to the previous mill in Wexford (Mullinderry) in that there was something to find, albeit not what I was expecting. It’s just called ‘flour mill’ on maps so in the absence of any other information I’ve named it after the local township - Irish townships are like parishes in...

Another explored for posterity - I knew it was a wreck, but occasionally there are interesting things to find. The mills themselves are found by scanning old OS maps, and some, like this one, also have an entry in the heritage list although it’s usually quite generic: “The ivy-enveloped shell...

This was near Duninga Mill and seemed to be just a flooded quarry with some plant next to it, which it is. However looking it up it was called a ‘limestone flour works’ which sounded interesting. Limestone flour turns out to be an older name for finely ground limestone, now called Aglime, or...

Working through a backlog of old Irish - actually UK at that time - mills. According to the national heritage survey of Eire, which records some of the older buildings, this one was mostly a wreck in 2004. Unusually for this rather useless survey there are even three pictures of the inside...

This was built as a large grain mill in 1800 but is shown as a maltings by 1900 on old maps. It’s been been disused since the 70s and is now mostly a shell. I was interested in Duninga because the original pair of water wheels were replaced by a water turbine at some stage and I wondered if it...

There were once many mills on the River Nore as it winds through Kilkenny City. At least 17 are shown on ca. 1900 OS maps, including grain mills, textile mills, woodworking mills, stone mills, a paper mill and a bone crushing mill. What these all have in common is that they were originally...

Originally opened in the late 19th century, this once-grand asylum was built to house hundreds of patients suffering from mental illness during a very different era of healthcare. Over the decades, the institution expanded with additional wards, treatment buildings, and staff accommodation...

The abandoned Vogue Cinema in Kilkeel. This old picture house opened in 1940 on Newry Street and became one of the best-known buildings in the town. Designed by Kilkeel-born architect Ben Cowser, the cinema was built in a Streamline Moderne / Art Deco style, with its bold curved frontage and...

Abandoned Castleblayney Shopping Centre, Co. Monaghan Hidden away in Castleblayney sits this huge abandoned shopping centre, a place that was once meant to bring new life, shops, jobs and investment into the town. The centre was part of a major boom-era retail development, with reports linking...

The Clashawaun textile mill is by far the most interesting industrial relic in Clara Report - - Clashawaun Jute Works (Clara, Ireland, 2024) | Industrial Sites. However there were also some water powered grain mills and and I’ve occasionally stopped by the town to look at the remains of these...

Mullingar is near the middle of Ireland and was an important railway hub from the mid 1800s. It’s railway station is Y-shaped and trains from Dublin could either carry on to Galway or go up to Sligo, both on the west coast. See When the train came to Mullingar | Westmeath Examiner for the...

A small ‘corn mill’, which probably ground mainly oats, present on maps by the 1830s and re-equipped in the late 1800s. There’s a reasonable amount of info about this one from a 2005 heritage assessment so I knew what to expect. Its most interesting feature is a neat iron Hurst frame, the...

Go easy, first post Always been into urbex and finally decided to give it a go Came across this spot on this site Went at night time for added effect but doesnt really matter since this place is fully enclosed. Campsie AAOR site The Campsie AAOR is an unfinished Cold War era anti-aircraft...

A corn mill on the outskirts of Rathangan, described as ‘derelict with the main block partly in ruins’ and containing unspecified ‘early mill equipment’. There’s been a mill at this location since 1540, at one stage processing flax, with the present grain mill dating from 1790 - 1800. Some of...