Old mill pond, Crawfordsburn (August 2017)
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Old mill pond, Crawfordsburn (August 2017)
Image: © Albert Bridge Taken: 17 Aug 2017
Part of the old mill pond, now very shallow, in Crawfordsburn Glen. The following quotation (a summary of information contained in the 1835 Ordnance Survey Memoirs) “Ballymullan is noted in the accompanying fair sheet for the 21 acres of mill pond and the corn mill belonging to Sharman Crawford MP. It has a large undershot wheel of 15 feet in diameter and 5 feet in breadth, bigger than many other similar mill-wheels as recorded” comes from the Bayburn local history website http://www.bayburn.com/.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.657382
Longitude
-5.726943