Survey Data

Reg No

15603203


Rating

National


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Historical, Social


Original Use

Mill (wind)


Date

1700 - 1798


Coordinates

298280, 139852


Date Recorded

21/06/2005


Date Updated

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Description

Freestanding single-bay single-stage cylindrical windmill tower, extant 1798, on a circular plan. In ruins, 1840. Roof now missing. Part repointed rubble stone walls. Square-headed door opening with cut-granite step threshold, and repointed red brick surround including repointed red brick voussoirs framing wrought iron gate. Interior in ruins. Set on hilltop.

Appraisal

The truncated shell of a windmill tower representing an integral component of the eighteenth-century industrial heritage of County Wexford [National Monument 0392].