Overview
Ballydugan Windmill is recorded in Down as Windmill. Its exact page in the Northern Ireland Historic Buildings Record identifies a named whole mill, rather than a numbered house or a detached part of a wider site.
Why it was built
The exact official record names Ballydugan Windmill and gives the building type as Windmill. It fixes this whole mill to one saved place and individual source page, but does not by itself provide a complete building date.
People and work
For Ballydugan Windmill, the saved name and type are the secure evidence. The short record used for this first account does not safely name owners, architects, builders, clergy, teachers, workers, travellers or other people, so none are invented.
How it changed
The type Windmill gives the safest clue to how Ballydugan Windmill was used. It does not establish a full sequence of construction, rebuilding, ownership, worship, education, trade, industry, transport or later change.
What survives
The official source fixes Ballydugan Windmill to this exact saved point and record. It gives no complete present condition report, so rooms, machinery, fittings, bridge fabric and other surviving parts are not guessed.
Why it mattered
Ballydugan Windmill matters here because an official architectural record identifies a distinct whole mill in this local area. This first account keeps that exact evidence visible while leaving the fuller place history for stronger source work.
History checked 16 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- MEDIEVAL CHURCH & GRAVEYARD (unlocated): ST. MARY MAGDALENE in Ringreaghmonumentunder 0.1 miles
- Hollymount Forestforestunder 0.1 miles
- Lake Housebuilding0.1 miles
- A.P. SITE in Ballyduganmonument0.2 miles
- ENCLOSURE — tree ring? in Hollymountmonument0.3 miles
- Hollymount Forest nature reserveforest0.4 miles
- MEDIEVAL CHURCH: BALIDUGAN (unlocated) in Ballyduganmonument0.4 miles
- Mapped graveyard — County Downmemorial0.4 miles
- AP Cropmark — Possible enclosure (rath?) in Ballydonetymonument0.5 miles
- BAWN: BALLYDUGAN BAWN in Ballydugancastle0.5 miles
- RAISED RATH in Ballyduganmonument0.5 miles
- A.P. SITE — double-ditched cropmark in Hollymountmonument0.6 miles
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