Kilmainham Mill – Conservation & Regeneration Study, Dublin 8
A feasibility study undertaken with Sherwood Associates on behalf of Dublin City Council. Kilmainham Mill is one of three mills known to have been located in this central part of Dublin; tucked away beside the river, close to Kilmainham Gaol and Courthouse the site had been in continuous use as a mill at least since the 16th century. Although unused since 2000, all the machinery for these finishing and fulling processes remains in situ and the archive of documentation relating to the various machines survives. Some of the individual machines may be unexceptional, but together the collection represents an assemblage of fulling and finishing machines that is unique.
Kilmainham Mill – Conservation & Regeneration Study, Dublin 8
A feasibility study undertaken with Sherwood Associates on behalf of Dublin City Council. Kilmainham Mill is one of three mills known to have been located in this central part of Dublin; tucked away beside the river, close to Kilmainham Gaol and Courthouse the site had been in continuous use as a mill at least since the 16th century. Although unused since 2000, all the machinery for these finishing and fulling processes remains in situ and the archive of documentation relating to the various machines survives. Some of the individual machines may be unexceptional, but together the collection represents an assemblage of fulling and finishing machines that is unique.
The Kilmainham Mill complex has a unity and an integrity; the surviving fabric of the Mill and its surrounding features reflect historic changes and developments in the milling process. It is also the last intact ‘fulling’ mill that also incorporated the finishing process in the island of Ireland.
The Kilmainham Mill complex has a unity and an integrity; the surviving fabric of the Mill and its surrounding features reflect historic changes and developments in the milling process. It is also the last intact ‘fulling’ mill that also incorporated the finishing process in the island of Ireland.
The nature of the site, (with its harmonious integration of the existing buildings, the river and the former mill race), its collection of nineteenth and twentieth century industrial buildings and machinery, its historic continuity of use for water powered industry since the medieval period, all combine to make the existing Kilmainham Mill complex a fascinating place. However, a restored and re-invented Mill has the potential to make a most valuable contribution to the spatial, economic and social context of Kilmainham and its wider environs.
The Kilmainham Mill complex has a unity and an integrity; the surviving fabric of the Mill and its surrounding features reflect historic changes and developments in the milling process. It is also the last intact ‘fulling’ mill that also incorporated the finishing process in the island of Ireland.
The nature of the site, (with its harmonious integration of the existing buildings, the river and the former mill race), its collection of nineteenth and twentieth century industrial buildings and machinery, its historic continuity of use for water powered industry since the medieval period, all combine to make the existing Kilmainham Mill complex a fascinating place. However, a restored and re-invented Mill has the potential to make a most valuable contribution to the spatial, economic and social context of Kilmainham and its wider environs.