The old Larkfield Flour Mill was used by Eamon Ceannt and Joseph Mary Plunkett to train Volunteers leading up to the 1916 Easter Rising and is now the site of Supervalu Shopping Centre on Sundrive Road.
“Seamus Robinson, an Irish Volunteer from Scotland … was living at the Larkfield Mill in Kimmage with a group of Volunteers from England and Scotland … Countess Plunkett, who was the wife of Count George Noble Plunkett, held this property under a lease. It consisted of twenty acres of land, four cottages, a shooting range, the disused Larkfield Mill and a significant-sized barn. Also on the property was a substantial house for the mill manager, known as Larkfield House” – Ann Matthews, ‘Renegades: Irish Republican Women 1900-1922’ (Cork: Mercier Press, 2010).
Owner / Occupier Information: Thoms Directory
1845-1853 Francis Tuite, Larkfield Mills (and 163 Thomas-street)
1872-1874 Richard William O’Callaghan, St. Patrick’s Mills
1875 Vacant (St. Patrick’s Mills)
1876-1878 William Danford, St. Patrick’s Flour Mills
1879-1886 William Danford, Larkfield Flour Mills
1887-1890 William Danford & Co., Larkfield Roller Mills
1889-1890 Sir Robert Herron, Larkfield Mills
1891-1912 Herron, Conolly & Co., Limited, Larkfield Roller Mills
1913 [No name], Larkfield Roller Mills
1917 Larkfield Chemical Co. Ltd.
1918 Vacant
1919-1921 J. Martin Thornton
1920–1932 B. and K. Cleary, woollen manufacturers
1933 Vacant
1934-1938 A. E. Derrington, Ltd, 12-18 Sundrive-road
1939 Larkfield Mill Works
1940-1949 St. Kevins Paint Works, A. E. Derrington, Ltd
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