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Baile Átha Troim
Newhaggard’s mill, kiln and miller’s house preserve a working landscape beyond Trim’s better-known medieval monuments.
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Baile Átha Troim · Irish · main form
- Trim · English · main form
Place & story
The Nangles’ flour and oatmeal
Lewis’s 1837 account describes New Haggard Mills on the Boyne west of Trim as the property of Mr Nangle. He reports annual production of about forty thousand barrels of flour and oatmeal. The town itself had smaller-scale milling, brewing and tanning. This industrial activity belonged to a parish largely under tillage, connecting the processing of grain with the farming landscape around the county town. [2]
A tall mill with castellated gables
The Newhaggard mill is a six-storey stone building dated by the architectural inventory to around 1760. Castellated parapets crown its gable ends, while iron tie-plates reinforce the masonry. A kiln and brick chimney adjoin the western gable. These surviving elements record the scale of a milling complex whose grain handling and drying required several different structures, rather than a single riverside building. [3]
The miller’s house
Nearby Newhaggard House dates from around 1780 and is identified in the inventory as a miller’s residence. Two storeys stand above a basement, with timber sash windows and a raised entrance approached by stone steps. Its carved doorcase has Ionic columns and an entablature. The house adds domestic accommodation to the industrial group, showing the architectural distinction given to a residence associated with the milling business. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Meath
- Barony
- Navan Upper
- Barony
- Moyfenrath Lower
- Coordinates
- 53.55154, -6.83225
- Mapped area
- 54.36 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1930 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Trim. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Trim, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Newhaggard mill, record 14403603 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Newhaggard House, record 14403602 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2026-09-05. How this page was prepared.