View from SE of water wheel. Digital image of D 4223/18.

Description View from SE of water wheel. Digital image of D 4223/18.

Date 12/11/1986

Collection Records of the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Sco

Catalogue Number SC 749626

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 4223/18

Scope and Content Waterwheel from south-east, Munlochy Mill, Highland Munlochy Mill was built c.1740, and has been out of use since 1950. It is a two-storeyed, rubble building with attached kiln and husk 'cupboard'. Two pairs of millstones were powered by an iron overshot waterwheel measuring 0.95m wide and 3.67m in diameter. This shows the mill's overshot waterwheel, which is turned by water channelled along a wooden lade. 32 wooden buckets on the wheel catch the falling water, which is then carried away by an underground tail race. Marks on the stone wall next to the wheel suggest the previous wheel was larger, measuring 4.2m in diameter. Waterwheels have been used as a source of power for hundreds of years and can be divided into two types. The earliest are the horizontal mills with a wheel turned by a stream with its shaft turning the millstone above directly; the other type has a vertical wheel and rotates the stones through a series of gears. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference SIAS neg.no.36/86/18

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