Former Corn Mill, to rear of 19 Cabragh Rd, Mayobridge, Newry, Co Down, BT34 2HX

A once sizeable complex encompassing a water-powered corn mill and detached drying kiln. Situated up lane to south of Bavan Bridge, on right bank of a small tributary of Clanrye River. 1. Corn mill The two-storey/ single bay mill is aligned north-south. Now dilapidated and used as a byre. Pitched natural slate roof and random rubble walls. There are iron tie bars through the walls at first floor level; an inscription on the securing plates reads "IAWS Ld/ Dairy Engineers Dublin". Main entrance door is in N gable; also a loading door above to first floor, with pulley bracket over. All windows have been infilled with concrete blocks. A one-storey seed house, now very ruinous, abuts the S end of the W elevation. The remainder of this elevation is abutted by a now-roofless one-storey concrete blockwork shed. Waterwheel pit clearly evident to outside of S gable. Measuring 142cm wide (suggesting a 137cm wide wheel), it has been extensively refurbished in concrete (suggesting second world war usage). Several shaft bearing housings remain. Their configuration suggests that a segment wheel was bolted to the waterwheel arms, the power being transmitted into the mill through a small bull nut. 2. Kiln A short distance north of the mill is the kiln complex, aligned east-west, but now very dilapidated. Originally this was a two-storey/ single-bay random rubble building with pitched natural slate roof and a one-storey hipped extension on its W gable. The latter was subsequently raised a floor to incorporate a kiln head (drying floor), its brick-vaulted firehole being constructed in the original section below. The enlarged building has a natural slate roof, pitched at E and hipped to W. The roof structure has now collapsed. Random rubble walls with openings in all walls. There is a ramp up to the first floor of the corn intake area at the E end of the N elevation. Abutting the W gable of the kiln is a one-storey lean-to with monopitched corrugated metal roof. Its rubble walls are tied to those of the kiln with diagonal panels of cast-in-situ concrete. A doorway on its W face enables access to the firehole. Two millstones lie outside the SW corner of the building. Both are one-piece granite shelling stones (a runner and bed stone), and measure 145cm in diameter. 3. Miscellaneous buildings Assorted random rubble buildings, now in an advanced state of decay, are located to the north and south of the mill and kiln; one of these was the former flax mill which now retains no features of interest.