Monument record MHG28385 - Watermill, Blughasary

NC10SW 5.01 133 103

Blughasary, Watermill

Situated on the S bank of the River Runie some some 100m downstream of the footbridge at Blughasary is a small vertical watermill. The mill is of dry stone rubble construction and measures 7.3 m in length and 5.1m in width with walls 0.7m in thickness. The line of the lade is visble but it probably consisted of a wooden trough. The water wheel pit is 0.7m in width. The water wheel was probably about 2.5m in diameter and 0.6m in width and of a low breast-shot type. The tail race measures 0.7m in width and is 1.9m in length and is stone lined to ground level. The cutting which allowed the bye-passing of the water wheel has retaining walls approximately 0.8m in height and 1.2m apart. This could have been a possible sluice site. A millstone lies amongst the wall tumble. This measures 1.12m in diameter (see DC33199 for details).

The ground level between the pond edge and the beginning of the lade is about 1.5m above the centre of the waterwheel shaft hole in the surviving N gable.
Visited by Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey (GJD), November 1986.
See NMRS MS 744/151 and DC 33199