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Cavan Water Mill, formerly Lifeforce Mill, is a 19th-century mill located in
Cavan Water Mill operates a MacAdam turbine as opposed to a conventional water wheel. The turbine was described as one of the few, if not the only surviving MacAdam turbines in Ulster in 1983.Anglo Celt, Professor Alan Crocker. Retrieved from http://www.anglocelt.ie/photostore/image-31352 The turbine may be an example of 19th-century
Cavan Water Mill website
{{Coord, 53.988854, -7.361829, display=title 1846 establishments in Ireland Buildings and structures in County Cavan Grinding mills in the Republic of Ireland
Cavan Water Mill, formerly Lifeforce Mill, is a 19th-century mill located in Cavan
Cavan ( ; ) is the county town of County Cavan in Ireland. The town lies in Ulster, near the border with County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. The town is bypassed by the main N3 road that links Dublin (to the south) with Enniskillen, Bally ...
. The current building dates from 1846 and contains a notable MacAdam water turbine. Having been abandoned in the 1960s, it was restored as a museum and visitor attraction in the 1990s.
History of the site
Milling
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* Milling (grinding), breaking solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting in a mill
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on this site can be traced back to the 14th century, when there was a Franciscan mill in the same location.
The current mill was established by the Greene family in 1846. During the 1840s, there were 90 working water mills in County Cavan
County Cavan ( ; gle, Contae an Chabháin) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster and is part of the Border Region. It is named after the town of Cavan and is base ...
, but at the time this mill was built it was the only one within a two-mile radius.
The building operated as a mill for more than a century until its closure in the 1960s. Following restoration, it operated again for a short while as a working mill for the creation of wholemeal flour for Lifeforce Foods.
Design of the building
The two-storey design has a three-bay extension at split level to the west and a two-storey return to the side. An adjacent mill building to the north was removed from its original site and rebuilt here in 1995 as part of the mill's restoration. As the only surviving example of one of the five mills that stood in Cavan Town, it is listed on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage for Ireland.MacAdam Turbine
Cavan Water Mill operates a MacAdam turbine as opposed to a conventional water wheel. The turbine was described as one of the few, if not the only surviving MacAdam turbines in Ulster in 1983.Anglo Celt, Professor Alan Crocker. Retrieved from http://www.anglocelt.ie/photostore/image-31352 The turbine may be an example of 19th-century industrial espionage
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, as it is believed to be a patent infringing copy of a design by Benoît Fourneyron. A similar turbine was installed at Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills, Cork in 1853.
References
External Links
Cavan Water Mill website
{{Coord, 53.988854, -7.361829, display=title 1846 establishments in Ireland Buildings and structures in County Cavan Grinding mills in the Republic of Ireland