Cregg Mill
Cregg Mill and miller's cottage
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| Flour mill | |
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| Architectural style | Standing, usage changed |
| Structural system | Limestone |
| Location | Corrandulla, County Galway |
| Coordinates | 53°23′15″N 8°58′26″W / 53.3875°N 8.973889°W |
| Construction | |
| Built | c.1780 |
| Renovated |
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| Floor count | 4 (originally 3) |
| References | |
| "Cregg Mill webpage". | |
Cregg Mill is a converted 18th century watermill located near Corrandulla village in County Galway, Ireland, approximately 9 miles from Galway City. The mill serviced the local area, including neighbouring Cregg Castle, and served as a feeding centre for the poor of Corrandulla during the Great Famine. An advertisement in the early twentieth century shows that wheat, rye, corn, oats, and barley were kiln dried and ground there.
The mill is situated on the Cregg River which rises from a spring a half mile to the north, and flows into Lough Corrib.
The Mill was built around 1780, and the first edition (1842) of the Ordnance Survey Ireland map shows that, originally, three watermills stood at the Cregg River bridge.[1] However, due to the effects of the 1845-1852 Great Famine, only one mill was mentioned as functioning in the 1853 edition of Griffith's valuation, with Patrick Wade listed as the miller.[2] The miller's cottage adjoins the Mill. In the third edition (1913) of the Ordnance Survey Ireland map only the current Cregg Mill is standing, and it is marked as "Flour Mill in ruins".[3]
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