Cloghamon Mill
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Cloghamon Mill is a song dating from around 1815 in County Wexford, Ireland. It describes a mill built at Clohamon near Newtownbarry (now Bunclody).
The mill was said to be on the River Slaney, about a mile below Bunclody.[1] A cotton mill is known to have built at Clohamon here from around 1835,[2][3] along with later a woollen mill.[4] The song may refer these, or the extensive water mills thought to have existed in the area prior to the establishment of the 1835 mill.[5] Mills were prominent in the area at the time, as the local population was mainly employed in mills in the 1830's.[6]
The below verses are said to part, but not all of the song. The absent verses are said to be about:
"the attention of the neighbouring gentry to the wants of the poor; and the poet, relaxing the strain, kept up to this point on his imagination, makes a rather commonplace conclusion to his ode, which we are obliged to omit, having, as we trust, supplied sufficient data to determine the measure of our bard's genius".[7]
