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Pluscarden Abbey, Corn Mill
Grain Mill (Period Unassigned), Watermill (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Pluscarden Abbey, Corn Mill
Classification Grain Mill (Period Unassigned), Watermill (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Pluscarden Priory; Vallisculian Priory
Canmore ID 16097
Site Number NJ15NW 6.03
NGR NJ 14239 57581
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16097
- Council Moray
- Parish Elgin
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
NJ15NW 6.03 14239 57581
(NJ 1424 5758) Corn Mill (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959)
The ruins of the Priory Mill adjoin the Prior's Lodge (NJ15NW 1.2) A stone water course along the south side of the Priory may be the lade.
D MacGibbon and T Ross 1896-7; P F Anson 1959.
All that remains of this building is the W and part of the S walls located against the S precinct wall some 12.0m E of the Prior's Lodging. The footings of a wall running from the E wall of the prior's lodging to the W wall of this building can still be traced. The stone-lined water course, mentioned above, runs through the centre of the building in an W to E direction, where, according to MacPhail, an axle was once visible although there is now no trace of it.
Father Edmund doubts if this was ever a mill - the water course being a drain to flush water from the rere-dorter, which he thinks this building was (Information from Father Edmund, Pluscarden Priory).
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R B), 7 September 1965; S R MacPhail nd.
