Duration: 0:49

136 views

2

Detached six-bay six-storey former flour mill, built 1832, having single-bay two-storey addition with integral carriage arch to side (north-west). Later in use as corn store and distillery. Now ruinous. Remains of pitched slate roofs with rendered chimneystack. Rendered rubble stone walls having dressed of stone quoins. Camber-headed window openings with limestone sills surmounted by slate hung panels. Camber-headed door openings. Pointed arch carriage arch, having red brick block-and-start surround and voussoirs to two-storey addition. Rubble limestone enclosing walls, having square-profile gate piers with rendered caps and wrought-iron double-leaf gates.

Appraisal
This substantial former flour mill retains much of it original form despite its ruinous condition. Set adjacent to the former miller's house and the related outbuilding, it forms part of a significant and highly visible group, which creates wonderful historic character at the heart of the village. Built as a flour mill, it was used as a corn store in the 1870s when the site was converted to a distillery. It serves as a physical reminder of the industrial and social history of Belgooly.
The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates. The beginnings of all these traditions is thought to be humans satisfying the very basic need of shelter and protection.[1] The term "architecture" generally refers to buildings, but in its essence is much broader, including fields we now consider specialized forms of practice, such as urbanism, civil engineering, naval, military,[2] and landscape architecture.

History of architecture

The Architect's Dream, by Thomas Cole, 1840, oil on canvas, in the Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, Ohio, USA)
Neolithic
Antiquity
Americas (Pre-Columbian)
South Asia
East and Southeast Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
Oceania
Islamic world
European Edit
Medieval Edit
Main article: Medieval architecture
See also: Norse architecture and Architecture of the Tarnovo Artistic School
Surviving examples of medieval secular architecture mainly served for defense across various parts of Europe. Castles and fortified walls provide the most notable remaining non-religious examples of medieval architecture. New types of civic, military, as well as religious buildings of new styles begin to pop up in this region during this period.

Byzantine Edit
Main article: Byzantine architecture




The Hagia Sophia (Istanbul, Turkey), 537, by Anthemius of Tralles and Isidore of Miletus
Byzantine architects built city walls, palaces, hippodromes, bridges, aqueducts, but most importantly, churches. They left us many types of churches, including the basilica (the most wide-spread type, and the one that reached the greatest development). From basilica derive other two types, the circular one and the octagonal one. Another monumental type of church is the one in shape of an Orthodox cross, and with five domes. In Mainland Greece, the most wide-spread type of church was the cruciform one, with one or more domes. Also, a big number of churches of these shapes exist in Moscow, Novgorod or Kiev, as well as in Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, North Macedonia and Albania. Through modifications and adaptations of local inspiration, the Byzantine style will be used as the main source of inspiration for architectural styles in Eastern Orthodox countries.[77] For example, in Romania, the Brâncovenesc style is highly based on Byzantine architecture, but also has individual Romanian characteristics.

Just like how the Parthenon is the most famous monument of the Ancient Greek religion, Hagia Sophia remained an iconic church of Christianity. The temples of both religions differ substantially in terms of their exterior and interior aspect. In Antiquity, the exterior was the most important part of the temple, because in the interior, where the cult statue of the deity to whom the temple was built was kept, only the priest had access. The ceremonies here held outside, and what the worshipers view was the facade of the temple, consisting of columns, with an entablature and two pediments. Meanwhile, Christian liturgies were held in the interior of the churches, the exterior usually having little to no ornamentation.The Belgooly Flour Mill, a ruinous building within the village, is entered in the initial Record of Protected Structures.[3] Other, more ancient monuments, included on the Record of Monuments and Places for County Cork, include a reputed holy well site immediately west of the village, and a standing stone to the south in Mitchelstown East townland.[4]

On 26 August 1941 a Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 crashed close to Belgooly, after being shot down by 615 Squadron of the RAF.[5]