What is recorded here
Freestanding single-bay three-stage conical windmill tower, dated 1836, on a circular plan. Disused, 1922. Now in ruins. Roof now missing. Fine roughcast battered walls. Square-headed opposing door openings with overgrown thresholds, and rough hewn granite lintels with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings (upper stages) with flush sills, and concealed dressings with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.
The shell of a windmill tower representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century industrial heritage of south County Wexford [SMR WX052-019----].
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15621001
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- kevin higgins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- kevin higgins, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- ArcticEmmet, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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