What is recorded here

Enclosure in Newtown (bantry By.) is a D-shaped earthen ring overlooking Bantry Bay, preserving the ghost of a windmill remembered through local tradition. Its low bank and western ditch shadow still mark the ground where wind once turned wooden blades above the pasture.

In pasture, overlooking Bantry Bay. D-shaped area, straight axis E-W (27.2m); projecting to N (23.4m). Interior enclosed by low earthen bank (H1.05m) with break (Wth 10m) at SE corner. Vegetation pattern suggests external fosse on W. According to local tradition, a windmill stood here. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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