Dundonald Old Mill

I love coming here, it reminds me of being a small child when my grandmother took me here, she was originally from the area and we used to call in here on the way to visit family in the area.
The Old Mill comprises a coffee shop and gift shop. The gift shop has lots of really tasteful homewares, and I have a number of items from there in my home.
The coffee shop is as you would expect in a building of this type, old world-​y, comfortable and friendly. Their food is delicious and you can get a good selection of soups, sandwiches, traybakes, and drinks.
The water wheel is one of the largest in Ireland (not one of the oldest, as stated in another review) and this alone is well worth seeing.
The Old Mill is off the beaten track somewhat, and somewhere I haven’t been in a while, but now I have been reminded of it, I will make a point of visiting it again very soon!

As with all tourist attraction Dundonald Old Mill has a gift shop, but this gift shop is a little different. You can tell the staff take pride in their shop, it is well kept, well stocked and perfectly arranged. They sell all sorts of thing but not just items displaying the Dundonald Old Mill logo as you would expect.
They also sell Crabtree and Evelyn toiletries and Willowtree figures among others, which makes it much more than just a gift shop.
They even sell Mac in a Sac which is useful as you may need to pop into the gift shop to pick one up before you begin your tour of The Mill.
The Staff are really helpful and always offer courteous service. This place is also really accommodating and has great disabled access.

Wet, miserable, gloomy and cold. A typical summer’s day in Northern Ireland. Well, they’re not all that bad, but this one really was spectacularly bad. My friend had popped round for a wee visit, so rather than twiddle our thumbs for an afternoon, I decided we should head off to the Old Mill.
Dundonald Old Mill maintains one of Ireland’s oldest water wheels, which has been restored in recent years. It’s quite a pleasant sight. The 250 year old building consists of a gorgeous gift shop and a quaint coffee shop. Despite having lived a short distance to the Old Mill for thirteen years, never had I once been to the coffee shop, so I was mightily intrigued.
The coffee shop lies above the gift shop, kind of like an open-​plan attic (if you can possibly have such a thing), and it’s decorated in a pretty farmhouse style, gingham tableclothes and the like. My friend ordered coke, and I had a magnificent honeycombe sundae in the tallest glass I have ever seen. Despite the weather, and the time of day (approx 4pm), the coffee shop was still fairly busy, but very chilled. Just how I like it.
I’ve paid a visit to the gift shop several times, and it’s a good’un. Very well stocked, with lots of lovely mill memorabilia to take home.
Definitely worth a visit. The pensioners certainly love it.