Mill in Drinagh South, County Wexford

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Freestanding single-bay three-stage cylindrical windmill tower, extant 1840, on a circular plan. In ruins, 1903. Roof now missing. Creeper or ivy-covered coursed rubble stone walls. Square-headed opposing door openings with thresholds, and rough hewn rubble stone lintels with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.

The overgrown shell of a windmill tower representing an integral component of the eighteenth-century industrial heritage of south County Wexford [SMR WX042-078----].

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15704273

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