Re-use of mills

There’s loads of examples around. To name a few off the top of my head. there’s a fairly large one on the Quay’s in Waterford, its an arts centre or tourist office, almost directly across from the bus station. I know there’s an old grain store on Davitt’s Quay in Dungarvan which was converted to Apartments. The developers wanted to pull it down, but An Bord Pleanal refused that andt a revised scheme was done incorporating it. D Dillion in Dungarvan was the architect if I remember correctly. Richmond Mill in Clonmel is another, which was converted to apartments and there’s one or two in Cahir Co Tipperary – Ed Walsh in Cahir was the architect for those. In Fethard Co Tipperary back in the 80’s an old mill was converted into a theatre… its used regularly, restored thanks to an ANCO (Fás) scheme.

Hope this helps.

Try the Mills & Millers of Ireland Society: http://www.millsofireland.org/

Very sympathetic job done to a mill on the road to Dunmanway, just short of Enniskeane/Ballineen. Can’t remember the name of it but any auctioneer worth their salt in that neck of the woods will know what you mean.

theses on mills?…you are one disturbed individual.

I suggest you pay a visit to the last intact working mill in Ireland situated on the banks of the Camac river in Old Kilmainham. Although listed by DCC as a unique protected structure they (DCC) have given planning permission for its intact interior to be gutted and the mill proper and its grounds to be become yet another block of apartments – surely a more benign use (tourism/cultural) should have been insisted / encouraged for a unique building in a unique setting. Go see the proposals for the old mills ‘re-use’ I doubt if they would be allowed anywhere else!!

@tungstentee wrote:

theses on mills?…you are one disturbed individual.

A little harsh!

Anyway, maybe try and find previous research or writing on conversions of old warehouses, mills ect in places like London Docks.

There is one converted to Apts in Thomastown,Co.Kilkenny AFAI can remember.

@doc brown wrote:

I’m sure you are much more disturbed than I am and you are probably the type of saddo that would do their thesis on something pointless like open space, nobody cares baby.

Great defence there Doc. Defence of a sweeping statement with another sweeping statement!

sticks and stones brother……at least i dont have to go “milling” around architectural forums for a crumb of a thesis…(do ya get the bread reference there?…nice one) …..man…thats the lowest…why dont you jus read a book like everyone else……..you are so “mill”king the system…..”mill”itant….. 😡

leave it out, this isn’t a playground.