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Highwood Mill

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Highwood Mill
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Freestanding single-bay three-stage tapering windmill tower, dated 1787, on a circular plan. In ruins, 1893. Roof now missing. Part ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone battered walls with rough hewn limestone coping. Square-headed opposing door openings with overgrown thresholds, and remains of rough hewn limestone…

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Freestanding single-bay three-stage tapering windmill tower, dated 1787, on a circular plan. In ruins, 1893. Roof now missing. Part ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone battered walls with rough hewn limestone coping. Square-headed opposing door openings with overgrown thresholds, and remains of rough hewn limestone lintels with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings (upper stages) with rough hewn limestone lintels. Interior in ruins. Set back from road on outcrop.
The shell of a windmill tower 'built [1787] by Denis Browne' representing an important component of the late eighteenth-century industrial heritage of County Mayo. Furthermore, a "tin roofed" outbuilding continues to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31311901

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Golfing in Ireland; photographer not stated, Source publisher
  • Ballinrobe GAA Club; individual photographer not stated, www.ballinrobegaaclub.com
  • andrew mcmillan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
  • Jonathan Wilkins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Marathon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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