98 Glenhoy Rd Ballygawley Co. Tyrone BT70 2AY

98 Glenhoy Road, Ballygawley, is a one and a half-storey formalized vernacular house of pre-1854 construction that was substantially remodeled in 1880. The building originally served as the miller's residence for the corn mill opposite, on the other side of the road.

The house sits on the eastern end of Glenhoy Road in a rural setting, close to the junction with Feddan and Ballynasaggart Roads, 3.3 kilometers west of Ballygawley. Cleanally corn mill stands directly opposite.

The structure comprises a three-openings-wide one and a half-storey gabled block with a full-width single-storey lean-to extension to the rear (dating from around the 1970s) and a single-storey corrugated-iron shed attached to the east gable. The main walls are largely finished in roughcast, though areas—notably the west gable—expose the rubble construction beneath. A brick eaves course runs across the building. The main gabled roof, now devoid of slates with its timber structure exposed, is matched by a corrugated-iron roof over the lean-to. Two replacement rustic brick chimneystack date from around 1950. All window and door openings, which feature a mixture of stone and concrete sills, are now empty of frames and doors.

The south-facing front elevation is symmetrical, with a central entrance flanked by window openings. Above the doorway sits a small gabled half-dormer containing a semicircular arched window. The corrugated-iron shed to the right has a plain sheeted door. The west elevation holds two upper-level windows in the main gable and a large rectangular window in the lean-to. The east elevation mirrors this with two upper-level windows to the main gable, while the east side of both lean-to and shed appear blank. The north elevation shows a window to the far left of the lean-to and a doorway to its centre-left.

Documentary evidence reveals that a building stood on this site by 1834, accompanied by an outbuilding to the north-west and another structure immediately to the east. Around 1836, records mention two 'old' single-storey thatched houses associated with the mill: the 'miller's house' (measuring 22½ feet by 19½ feet by 6 feet) and the 'kilnman's dwelling' (26 feet by 14 feet by 7 feet). By the 1854 Ordnance Survey map, the present arrangement appears, with only one dwelling recorded in the 1858 valuation. The current dwelling likely represents either the demolition of both earlier houses with new construction on the site, or a modification of an existing structure.

From the 1830s, Patrick Martin held the lease of the mill and house from John Spear of nearby Cleanally. The lease passed to James Martin around 1862, then to Owen Lynch in 1879, with Patrick Early of Cleanally succeeding as lessor at roughly the same date. In 1880, valuers explicitly noted the house as having been 'raised and slated', indicating that its present form dates from this campaign of work, when the roof of what had originally been a lower, probably thatched dwelling was raised and the façade remodeled.

William Booth became leaseholder in 1895. The 1901 census records Mr. Booth, a miller, living here with his wife Margaret, four young children, and James Robinson, a corn drier. The house is described as a 'second class' dwelling with three windows in front and five rooms in use. An 1906 Ordnance Survey map marks the property as a 'post office', though no trace of this function appears in the 1911 census or in visible evidence such as a letter box. The office may have occupied the now-demolished neighbouring outbuilding or the corrugated-iron addition to the east (itself built after 1906). The building is unmarked on the 1936 OS map, though a letter box stood nearby and a telephone kiosk—often sited near post offices—was later placed adjacent to the mill buildings.

John McKeown took over the lease in 1929. The corrugated-iron section to the east was added sometime before 1936; the lean-to extension was constructed after 1974, though its appearance suggests earlier work. The mill itself, built in 1828 on the site of an earlier mill and converted to electric power in the mid-20th century, operated until the 1970s. The house appears to have remained occupied until the 1980s by the widow of the last miller.

The building is now practically roofless, has lost its window frames, and does not meet the criteria for listing.