From 1868 O/S Plan XIV.9 - SC 224692 + SC 225691
(37) Kentraugh Mill March 2024
Mill prob photo'd 1964
The Kiln is the smallbuilding on the left with the characteristic louvre
vents.
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(37) is the Corn Mill, SC 224692
The mill house to the north of the mill has a 1768 date stone set above the doorway. The dam is now filled and used as a garden - Jones in his 1969 paper provides plans and several photographs of the surviving machinery. The then owner also produced a guide to the mill [MM B240/97]
Lib Assed 1580
Robt Qualtrough for the mill of Cantraugh 15s
(90) The Flour Mill, SC 225691,is in the Kentraugh grounds and was used exclusively for grinding corn produced by the Estate. This was fed by an "undershoot" water wheel in contrast to the overshoot wheels on the other Mills on the Colby river
C C McFee The Romance of a River 1979 M.M. MD 15081/3
David H Jones Manx Water Mills Journal Manx Museum VII p11 1966
David H Jones The Water-Powered Cornmills of England, Wales, and the Isle
of Man, A Preliminary Account of their Development - Chap 27 (pp302/354
of Transactions of the Second Symposium on Molinology, Denmark 1969
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