Survey Data
Reg No
15621001
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Mill (wind)
Date
1835 - 1840
Coordinates
297732, 104616
Date Recorded
21/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding single-bay three-stage conical windmill tower, dated 1836, on a circular plan. Disused, 1922. Now in ruins. Roof now missing. Fine roughcast battered walls. Square-headed opposing door openings with overgrown thresholds, and rough hewn granite lintels with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings (upper stages) with flush sills, and concealed dressings with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.
Appraisal
The shell of a windmill tower representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century industrial heritage of south County Wexford [SMR WX052-019----].