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Corn mill Eben Haezer

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Molen De Heerser

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Biking really got to Joao 😴 Passed by the De Gooyer the tallest wooden mill in the Netherlands built in 1725 as a corn mill 🌽

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The River  Swilly in County  Donegal is not a very large river at all, more of a stream in fact. It begins its path to the sea some 24 miles inland and flows into Lough Swilly at Letterkenny. Driving along the leafy Swilly Valley it’s hard to imagine that hundreds of men were slaughtered here at the Battle of Farsetmore in 1567 in an engagement between the O’Neill and the O’Donnell clans.

The Corn Mill at Newmills

Just a little further along the valley the mental image of a bloody battlefield changes to one of absolute tranquility, for it is here at Newmills that there are Corn and Flax mills, powered by the waters of the Swilly. This very attractive complex of industrial buildings, the oldest of which is said to be 400 years old, are beautifully preserved as National Monuments by the Office of Public Works.

Blue Flax

The Flax and Corn were grown locally and I love to  imagine great fields of blue flowered flax waving in the breeze. Flax is the raw material for linen and the process of turning it from a tall grass type plant into beautiful fabric is explained at the centre. Flax has been processed at this site since the 17th Century and a Corn mill has been here since the 18th Century. There was a revival in Flax production in World War 2 when the British Government offered grants to producers to supply linen for the war effort.

At the Corn Mill, Oats and Barley were milled. Both the Flax Mill and the corn mill are powered by the water of the River Swilly flowing over a 25 foot water wheel, one of the largest working water wheels in Ireland.

The large water wheel, furthest away in this image, dates from 1867.

The Mill Race

The Corn Mill at Newmills

Scutchers Cottage. A scutcher was involved in processing the flax.

There is something very therapeutic and relaxing about watching these wheels in action.

New Mills Flax and Corn Mills are fine examples of industrial archaeology, beautifully restored  to tell a tale of industry in times gone by.

The Mill on the Swilly The River  Swilly in County  Donegal is not a very large river at all, more of a stream in fact.

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Built in 1703, Carpenter’s Grist Mill is a still-operational water-powered mill. It is one of only four known grist mills from the period still surviving, and the oldest operating corn mill in the state.

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The New Glasgow Milling Co finds it impossible to fill the orders that are coming in, as fast as they would like. The mill is running night and day, and new rollers have been added recently. In November 2,400 bbls of flour were turned out, and found a ready market. During the past six months 20,000 bbls of cornmeal were ground, which also found ready sale. The flour and meal turned out at this mill gives general satisfaction.

December 17, 1897 Digby Courier, December 17, 1897