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

A substantial complex of water-powered mills situated up a lane to the south of Bavan Bridge, on the right bank of a small tributary of the Clanrye River, near Mayobridge. Dating from the early 19th century, the complex originally encompassed a corn mill, drying kiln, and flax mill, though now all buildings are very dilapidated and without machinery.

The corn mill is a two-storey, single-bay structure aligned north-south with a pitched natural slate roof and random rubble walls. Iron tie bars pass through the walls at first floor level, with securing plates bearing the inscription "IAWS Ld / Dairy Engineers Dublin". The main entrance is in the north gable, and a loading door with pulley bracket sits above at first floor. All windows have been infilled with concrete blocks. A one-storey seed house, now ruinous, abuts the south end of the west elevation, whilst a now-roofless one-storey concrete blockwork shed adjoins the remainder of this side. The waterwheel pit is clearly evident outside the south gable, measuring 142 centimetres wide (indicating a wheel of approximately 137 centimetres), and has been extensively refurbished in concrete, suggesting second world war usage. Several shaft bearing housings remain, their configuration indicating that a segment wheel was bolted to the waterwheel arms with power transmitted into the mill through a small bull nut.

The kiln complex stands a short distance north of the mill, aligned east-west. Originally a two-storey, single-bay random rubble building with pitched natural slate roof and a one-storey hipped extension on its west gable, it was subsequently enlarged with an additional floor to incorporate a kiln head (drying floor), its brick-vaulted firehole constructed in the original section below. The enlarged building displays a natural slate roof, pitched at the east end and hipped to the west, though the roof structure has now collapsed. Random rubble walls with openings in all elevations; a ramp rises to the first floor of the corn intake area at the east end of the north elevation. A one-storey lean-to with monopitched corrugated metal roof abuts the west gable of the kiln, its rubble walls tied to the kiln with diagonal panels of cast-in-situ concrete. A doorway on its west face provides access to the firehole. Two one-piece granite shelling stones (a runner and bed stone), each measuring 145 centimetres in diameter, lie outside the southwest corner of the building.

The complex includes assorted random rubble buildings in an advanced state of decay 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.

The corn mill appears on the 1834 Ordnance Survey map. An 1835 valuation records the mill measuring 40 by 21 by 7 feet and the kiln as 18 by 18 by 7.5 feet, though both structures were evidently raised at some subsequent date. The flax mill appears on the 1860 map. A second valuation records the corn mill as containing one pair of stones, fans and sifters, whilst the flax mill had six stocks and a roller. Both mills became disused around 1892, though the corn mill appears to have been returned to work around 1915 during the First World War and was evidently used afterwards, probably during the Second World War.