New mills Corn and Flax Mills

Newmills Corn and Flax Mills is a grain mill placed in County Donegal, Ireland. The mill is located on the R250, Churchill Street, beside Newmills Bridge on the south financial institution of the River Swilly, five kilometers west of Letterkenny inside the small city of Milltown. It capabilities certainly one of the most important working waterwheels in the use of a. The millrace is 1 km long and powers separate mill heels, one for grinding oats and barley and the opposite for flax.

Corn and flax mills were placed there since the early 19th century when the Joseph Hunter. This aggregate of corn and flax mills is located especially in Ulster in which each varieties of mill were in detail linked to the encompassing farming economy. In 1861, Joseph Hunter bought the turbines to John Devine and while Patrick Gallagher moved to Newmills in 1892, he offered the complex from William Devine, John's son. In addition to the turbines, Gallagher purchased a house, public residence, grocery and ancillary homes; together with a sketcher’s cottage this turned into positioned in a area beside the mill pond. The complex also protected a forge on the other side of the road in addition to a sizeable farm of land.