TAYNISH MILL - Scottish Natural Heritage
TAYNISH MILL - Scottish Natural Heritage
TAYNISH MILL - Scottish Natural Heritage
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The mill is not identifiable in 17th-century documents relating to the Taynish estate. An<br />
obligation dated 1724 refers to the mills of Ross and Duntaynish, and the two mills were<br />
associated in 1779, when John MacNeill was ‘miller of the milns of Ross and Taynish’. It was still<br />
in operation in 1867, when a ‘neat slated dwelling house and Corn Mill attached’ were described.<br />
It is said to have been abandoned about 1886, and a drawing of that date shows that the kiln had<br />
already lost most of its roofing-slates. The original building was very similar in layout to that at<br />
Aironn (No, 227) but a little larger, measuring 11.1m from NE to SW by 7.7m over rubble-built<br />
walls varying from 0.7m to 1m in thickness. In the NE gable-wall there was a loading-door 2.5m<br />
wide, whose arch has now collapsed; this is shown as blocked in the 1886 drawing, which also<br />
indicates a doorway, now vanished, at the adjacent end of the SE wall.<br />
Loading-door arch spring<br />
Pier<br />
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