Features

• A stone built three storey 19th century mill with iron mill wheel, 2 mill stones, a drying kiln and all the associated milling equipment. Also in a separate corrugated shed a saw mill driven off the wheel.
• A compact mill without the enormous bulk often found with these buildings this offers an approachable opportunity to restore a working flour mill for the artisan milling sector.
• The mill last worked in the 1980's.
• "We don’t know when Clogga Mill was opened but it was first recorded as being there in 1850 (however it was more than likely older than this - at least circa 1800, there may have been other mills on this site previously). At this time (1850), it was ran by Edward Bowers whose family would have been the local landlords for the area. It is then recorded as being owned by a James Walsh who ran it with his brother in the 1880s. In the early 1900's it was then bought by the Mennell family who ran it until 1924 until they left as they felt uncomfortable in Ireland at the time being English during the revolutionary period. It was then bought by Jimmy McDonald. He and his sister Peg resided there till their deaths in the 1970's and 1980's. It was then passed on to their nephew Wattie Hogan who resided their until his death in 1999. It is still in the possession of the Hogan family.
• The mill was used to grind corn (barley and oats) to meal, to be used for animal feed stuffs. It was run for many years by Jack O'Shea who also lived in the mill on the third floor until his death in the 1960's. When the Mill was first built, a stream was diverted and dammed to create two ponds which built up the pressure and flowed down the mill race which created enough movement to turn the wheel. The mill wheel powered a number of machines and not just the wheel used for grinding. A pulley system was powered which lifted the bags of corn through the floors, a roller was also powered by the wheel and also a saw for cutting wood was powered. There was a furnace in the mill and a second floor drying area that was used to dry the oats when needed. The dried oats were used to make porridge.
• The mill is still standing today and has the original water wheel and grinding stone. There was also a shop which sold sweets, cigarettes etc. The mill closed in 1982 and the shop a few years later.
• The Mill’s closure was prompted by declining business generally and a break down in one of the gears was the excuse to stop altogether in 1982.
• At some point in the early 20th century a small sawmill was set up on the mill island with its power taken from the mill wheel, a clever and simple second purpose for the use of the available water power".
• (With thanks to the webpage cloggaireland/history_page.html#top. We acknowledge the copyright to the above material of this this page)
• The Mill appears on the Kilkenny County Council Record of Protected Structures as Record S127 and is described as follows; "Clogga Mill (Grain) Disused two-storey grain mill with intact overshot waterwheel. Machinery may still
• survive internally. Adjoins former sawmill.
• D127"
• The mill was filmed in operation in the 1960's and can be viewed at the following link;

Documents

Clogga Map and location map.pdf