Modern watermill and associated water management.


The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a building at the grid reference provided, together with the annotation, 'Flour Mill'.


The mill stands just a few metres from the Ballaugh stream, but was powered from a millpond excavated alongside the watercourse. The millpond covered 0.3 acres, but was confined to a narrow strip of ground. It consequently extended for over 200m, but was never more than 12m wide. The main inlet to the millpond was by way of a weir located approximately 45m downstream of the humpbacked roadbridge in the centre of Ballaugh. Additional water was derived from a field drain approaching from Carmodil to the south. The bridge carrying the former Manx Northern Railway is more than 20m long so as to span both the Ballaugh stream and the former site of the millpond.


The millpond extends as far as the gable of the mill, where the wheel was located. A tail race, some 125m in length, carries water back to the stream; about one quarter of its length is shown culverted under the farmyard on the OS mapping.


The building was in 2017 roofless. The tail race and millpond are largely infilled.