Survey Data
Reg No
15704909
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Mill (wind)
Date
1842 - 1902
Coordinates
275918, 101344
Date Recorded
04/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Remains of freestanding single-bay four-stage conical windmill tower, extant 1902, on a circular plan. In ruins, 1922. Roof now missing. Rendered battered walls over coursed rubble stone construction. Square-headed window openings with rough hewn shallow sills, and concealed dressings including rough hewn lintels with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins with lichen-covered cut-granite beaded corbels (upper stages). Set in unkempt grounds.
Appraisal
The shard of a windmill tower representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century industrial heritage of south County Wexford [SMR WX049-019----].