Mill in Johnstown, County Kildare

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Freestanding single-bay two-stage cylindrical windmill tower, dated 1714, on a circular plan. In ruins, 1838. Roof now missing. Coursed rubble stone walls with inscribed cut-limestone date stone ("1714"). Square-headed opposing door openings with remains of rough cut limestone voussoirs. Square-headed "loops" (second stage) with rough cut limestone surrounds. Interior in ruins. Set on hill.

The shell of a windmill tower 'ERECTEd BY LEWES MOORE OF BALLINA ESqr' representing an important component of the early eighteenth-century industrial heritage of County Kildare.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11801001

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