placenamesMillbrook
Sruthán an Mhuilinn
Millbrook’s industrial history reaches back to Samuel Allen’s eighteenth-century bleach mill, while its school connects the locality with Amanda McKittrick Ros.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Sruthán an Mhuilinn · Irish · main form · validated name
- Millbrook · English · main form
Place & story
Samuel Allen’s bleach mill
Linen merchant Samuel Allen established a bleach mill and drying ground at Millbrook in 1776. Historian Nick Kingsley’s research on the Allen family records that he operated the concern until 1801. Allen’s later purchase of the Lisconnan estate in 1788 places the Millbrook enterprise within the story of a merchant family whose linen business helped finance landed property elsewhere in County Antrim. [2]
Records of the linen works
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland preserves thirteen account books from the Millbrook Bleaching and Finishing Company at Larne. Covering 1906–1940, they record quantities and varieties of linen cloth woven or repaired. Catalogued as D 3135/1, these surviving business records provide a route into the working history of the local textile industry. [3]
Amanda McKittrick Ros at Millbrook
The writer Amanda McKittrick Ros moved to the Larne area to teach at Millbrook National School. Born in Drumaness, County Down, in 1860, she later married local stationmaster Andrew Ross. Larne Museum preserves material associated with her, including a calling card reproduced in the museum-sector publication Women in Our Culture. Her teaching career gives Millbrook a documented connection with her life before her later literary reputation. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Glenarm Upper
- Civil parish
- Kilwaughter
- Within
- Drumnahoe
- Coordinates
- 54.83771, -5.85183 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 135820 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Millbrook. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Allen of Lisconnan House: family and estate research · Nick Kingsley
- The Ulster Textile Industry: catalogue of business records, page 64, Millbrook · Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
- Women in Our Culture, page 13: Amanda McKittrick Ros · Northern Ireland museum-sector publication / Larne Museum contribution
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.