Overview
mill (wind) — Carraholly is recorded as mill (wind) in Mayo. The saved source gives an exact reason to look beyond the map label: Freestanding single-bay single-stage cylindrical windmill tower, extant 1838, on a circular plan.
Why it was built
The label mill (wind) gives the safest clue to purpose or form. It does not by itself prove the exact building method, daily use, age or sequence of changes at this place.
People and work
The short source does not safely name the people, events or traditions tied to this exact point. A famous nearby story is not attached without evidence that it belongs here.
How it changed
The saved wording does not establish one complete story of attack, rebuilding, abandonment, damage or later change. No single cause is claimed without evidence.
What survives
The saved source records: Freestanding single-bay single-stage cylindrical windmill tower, extant 1838, on a circular plan.
Why it mattered
mill (wind) — Carraholly matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A truncated windmill tower representing an integral component of the eighteenth-century industrial heritage of County Mayo. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Wind Mill — Rusheen (burrishoole By.)monumentunder 0.1 miles
- Standing stone — pair in Rusheen (burrishoole By.)monument0.2 miles
- Indicated — Rusheen (burrishoole By.)monument0.2 miles
- Church in Rusheen (burrishoole By.)monument0.2 miles
- Killeen Grave Yd. — Rusheen (burrishoole By.)monument0.2 miles
- Indicated — Westport Demesne (burrishoole By.)monument0.3 miles
- Site of Bawn Castle — Westport Demesne (burrishoole By.)castle0.3 miles
- Fairy fort / ringfort in Westport Demesne (burrishoole By.)monument0.4 miles
- Knockaniska Bridge — MONEY, RUSHEEN [BURR. BY.]building0.6 miles
- Barrow — unclassified in Rusheen (burrishoole By.)monument0.6 miles
- Doonbullaun — Moyour Channelmonument0.8 miles
- Indicated — Moneymonument0.8 miles
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