Drummochy Saltworks - The Salt Girnel

Following on from yesterday's post about the panhouse of the Drummochy Saltworks, another key building connected to the salt works would have been the 'salt girnel'  'Girnel' is defined as 'a large chest or other receptacle or space for the storage of meal, malt, grain, or salt'.  In this case it was a storehouse for salt and it is the red-roofed building surrounded by the stone wall on the waterfront to the left of centre in the above photograph.  Now a private home, it has more recently been referred to as the 'Net House' as it was once used for mending, storing and drying nets and other fishing equipment.  Nets can be made out in the photo below - hanging out to dry in the walled space between the old girnel and the sea.

A final instalment on the Drummochy saltworks to come in the next post...