Former corn/scutch mill, Carrydarragh Road, Moneymore, Magherafelt

A 1 bay 1 storey gabled building in line with 2 storey 2 bay former mill building fitted with metal mill wheel with further single storey building at right angles. The N elevation from left 1 bay 1 storey with a single 12 pane double hung sliding sash window, stone built with corrugated iron roof. A 2 bay 2 storey building in line with single door opening at ground level and at 1st floor a shuttered opening, then a large metal 6 metre diameter waterwheel, fed overhead, 600mm wide with shallow buckets. There are the remains of a flume issuing from a former mill pond fed by a mill race which extends for more than a mile to take water from the Ballymully River, which actually flows close by the former mill. The 2 storey part is built of coursed red sandstone, gabled with corrugated iron roof. The long return at right angles is 3 bays long with 2 wide door openings and used as a garage. This building is now largely constructed of concrete block although one of the walls is rubble stone. The gable of the 2 storey part on the mill pond side is mainly sheeted with corrugated iron. To one side are the remains of sluice and flume. The remains of tail race extant and originally crossed road. The owner has a small undershot waterwheel which operates a pump which supplies water in a 20mm pipe up to the mill pond to allow demonstration revolutions of the large wheel. This located by the bank of the Ballymully River. The mill buildings are situated on the S side of the Carrydarragh Road and the Ballymully River. There are other buildings forming a group including the dwelling house of the present owner.