Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB02/05/043

Address :
Former Flax Mill 11 Carnanbane Road Dungiven Co Londonderry BT47 4BR

Townland:
Carnanbane

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Store

Former Use
Mill

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
51/13

IG Ref:
C6694 0625

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

A rectangular stone built and slated former flax mill. A 3 bay long, originally 2 storey gabled sandstone random rubble structure. W side, which faces towards the Owenrigh River, has a single door opening (door missing) with wooden lintol, to each side rectangular window openings, one louvred. Above the louvred window a narrow door opening the threshold of which is on the wooden lintol. Above the other 2 ground floor openings there are 2 square louvred openings again with wooden lintols. There is a corbel course under the slate eaves in long lengths of sandstone. The wall is built of rough random rubble sandstone. The Bangor blue smallish slates are in poor repair with some holes. At each gable there are crude insitu concrete barges, the one at the N gable partially collapsed. Ridge tile, no gutters. The N gable has a large high square headed opening, probably enlarged to suit lorries or modern farm machinery. Trimming of opening done in concrete blocks. There is evidence on this gable that another pitched roof abutted it. The E wall has no opening and is part built into the side of glen behind it. Against the S gable abuts a corrugated iron roofed store. The mill building is sited parallel to the glenside with the millrace cut into the slope behind. Adjacent to the mill is the renovated dwelling of the present owner and the Owenrigh River.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

This former flax mill is shown on the O.S. 1830 Map when the townland was in the proprietorship of Stewart Bruce. O.S. Memoirs describes the flax mill as having “1 breast water mill, diameter of wheel 13 feet and gave an average time of working as 12 weeks. In more recent times the mill was in the ownership of Andrews when it was sold to the Murphy family who still have the holding though the name has changed to McLaughlin. References Primary Sources 1. O.S. Map 1830 Londonderry sh. 30. 2. O.S. Memoirs of Ireland, Parishes of Co Londonderry X, 1833-34, 1838 Ed by Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams, Q.U.B. p. 117, 126. 3. Present Owner (2000)

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An example of a stone built flax mill of the late 18th or early 19th century.

General Comments

Date of Survey

26 July 2000