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Wellbrook Beetling Mill

TIME : 2016/2/18 22:54:37

Beetling, the final stage of linen-making, involves pounding the cloth with wooden hammers, or beetles, to give it a smooth sheen. This 18th-century mill still has its original machinery and stages loud demonstrations of the linen-making process led by guides in period costume. The white-washed mill is on a pretty stretch of the River Ballinderry, 7km west of Cookstown, just off the A505.