Flax Mill, Ballymagart Mill, Ballyardle Road, Kilkeel, Newry, Co. Down, BT34 4JX

Long single-storey/ two-bay flax scutching mill to west of corn mill and facing south to yard. Waterwheel to right gable. Segmental painted corrugated metal roof (collapsed at right). Walls are coursed roughly squared granite blocks with snecking. Left bay of principal facade has a single blocked up window, to right of which is a pair of large corrugated metal doors. Right bay contains four openings: second from left is a doorway and remainder are windows (without glazing). Left gable is abutted by a later and slightly taller one-storey single-bay building. Corrugated metal pitched roof, brick verges and rubble masonry walls. A small granite shed abuts the back left corner of this addition. Rear wall of main block has two small window openings to each bay, all boarded over. Right gable has collapsed. The waterwheel measures 6.54m (21ft 5in) in diameter by 1.45m (4ft 9in) wide. It has a high breast-shot feed from a concrete launder across from the millpond behind the corn mill. Cast-iron axle, hubs and rims; 12 wooden arms and angled buckets. Segment wheel affixed to arms drives bull nut, from which there is a geared step to axle entering mill. All very overgrown.