County: Sligo Site name: KEENAGHAN
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 11E0010
Author: Martin A. Timoney
Site type: Corn mill of 1795
Period/Dating: —
ITM: E 566319m, N 815170m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 54.084530, -8.514764
Keenaghan corn mill, on the south-west side of Ballymote, was begun in 1795 and developed and functioned until a fire in 1941, which left it in a ruinous condition. The current development is for the refurbishment of the ruins to provide an open-plan coach and transport museum, and later reinstatement of the mill-wheel and tail-race and associated works. The O’Hara family of Annaghmore, Collooney, Co. Sligo, gave some coaches to the National Museum of Ireland in the 1950s. These are to be returned as the focal feature of the new facility.
Testing by way of twelve test holes took place for both archaeological and structural engineering reasons in early 2011. There were no archaeological finds in any of the holes and all reached natural.
Bóthar an Corainn, Keash, Co. Sligo.
