What is recorded here

Death may have first climbed that hill, dragging Sir Silvester Browne and Daniel Stubbs to the mill in May 1642 before rope and gravity finished what fury began. The mill was rebuilt later, perhaps in the 1800s, and turned the same wind into flour for decades. Then it rotted, collapsed or was stripped, leaving only a stub of wall and a shadow on the ground. The lake still moves below, but the hill keeps the shape of what happened there.

On a hilltop overlooking Lough Ree to the S and SW. Named 'Wind Mill Stump' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, this may be the remains of the windmill where Sir Silvester Browne, having been forcibly taken from his house (LF021-010002-) in Formoyle by several Irishmen, was hanged, along with Daniel Stubbs, in May 1642 (Hickson 1884, vol. 1, 354, 358). All that survives are partial wall-footings (approx. wall T 0.8m). The shell of a two-storey 19th-century windmill lies c. 3m to the SSW. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 11 February 2013

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