Achriesgill Mill
Looking for any information relating to this grain mill. From information so far researched it would appear this was a horizontal grain mill, built where the stream from General’s Loch enters Achriesgill Bay, Loch Inchard.
It seems possible the son of the miller at Oldshoremore, Donald Morrison may have been the person who was the initial miller. However there would need to be more than a single miller to run such a mill, so other millers must have been involved.
Donald Morrison was recorded in the 1851 census as “Crofter & Miller” and in the 1861 census as “Miller” and by the 1871 census as a Crofter and Fisherman, so if he was involved in the development and running of the Achriesgill mill it may have stopped its operations in the 1861 -1871 period. If so what were the circumstances relating to its closure?. The Oldshoremore mill north of Kinlochbervie was apparently still operating in the early 1900 period
As yet I have not done a search around the general Achriesgill region over this period to look for other persons who recorded their occupation as miller.
Such an exercise would give an indication of over what period of time the Achriesgill mill operated. If someone with ready access to census records over this period could locate the time frame of when miller occupations were recorded, it would give a general timeframe of when the Achriesgill mill was in operation.
Are there any known photos, paintings or sketches of the Achriesgill Mill in existence?
Donald NZ
