Really lucky this beautiful November morn to get a behind-the-scenes tour of Kilmainham Mill which is under restoration and development at the moment. Expect a long thread of pics.
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Text adapted from window artwork by Sean Rushe and Dublin City Council signage: “Kilmainham Mill has been in continuous use as a mill from C. 1184 through to the year 1994. Some of the finest tweeds and silks were produced here by Irish crafts-workers. Irish costume designer Joan Bergin worked from these premises. Considered a valuable part of Irish industrial heritage, it will be renovated further in the future. Unveiled by The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Críona Ní Dhálaigh. 19th September 2015”
Text adapted from window artwork by Sean Rushe and Dublin City Council info signs: “Water power milling activities have taken place at the mill site from at least the 16th-century in both texile and grain milling. Kilmainham Mill is probably the only largely unaltered early 19th-century mill in Dublin and one of the most intact in Ireland. The present building includes some fine early 19th-century industrial architecture and brick chimney stack.”