- Address
- Ballyboden Road, Ballyboden
- Type
- Mill (water)
- NIAH reg. no.
- 11216049
Old Mill
Ballyboden Road, Ballyboden, Rathfarnham
About Old Mill
Old Mill is one of 85 buildings in Rathfarnham the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Old Mill to 1800–1860. 4 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
This short section of mill race is connected to an intake on the Owendoher River. Although the mill remains are fragmentary, they are valuable evidence of historic land usage in the area.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 11216049 · CC BY 4.0 · Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
NIAHRead its National Inventory recordThe full description and appraisal, the survey photo and the map · 11216049↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 15 minutes
Rathfarnham · about 900 m on foot, as the crow flies
Like it: recorded buildings near Rathfarnham
Saint Patrick's Tower in Dolphins Barn is the nearest, at 6.3 km. 8 like it are within 40 km, each with a photo. At the edge of the list, 9.5 km away: “Electricity substation, Malahide Road, Clontarf Road, Dublin 3”, Clontarf West.
Questions about Old Mill
Is Old Mill on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 11216049).
Can you visit Old Mill?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Old Mill built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1800–1860.
Is Old Mill protected?
Being on the National Inventory or the Sites and Monuments Record is a record, not protection by itself: buildings are protected by their council’s Record of Protected Structures, which each council keeps and no national open list gathers, so this page can’t say which are on it.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata (CC0).
Sources: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie). Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
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