placenamesRathfeigh
Ráth Faiche
Delaney’s Mill preserves evidence of a small family milling business and the house built beside its working yard.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Ráth Faiche · Irish · main form · validated name
- Rathfeigh · English · main form
Place & story
A family milling operation
Delaney’s Mill at Rathfeigh operated as a family business before production ceased in the 1950s. Its surviving group includes the mill, a grain-drying kiln and ancillary structures, showing how processing and storage were brought together at a rural milling site. [2]
The miller’s house
The former mill house was built around 1840. Its symmetrical five-bay frontage faces the yard, while the roadside elevation has no windows. A hipped slate roof covers the two-storey house; a coach house and stables stand to the north, and a well is built into the roadside bank to the south. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Rathfeigh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Mill House, Delaney’s Mill, Rathfeigh: 14403208 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.