What is recorded here

Pigeon Ho. began as a windmill on a Dublin hill, spinning flour for the road below before pigeons took its chambers. The change from bread to birds suggests a household that adapted rather than abandoned the building.

Rocque’s 1760 Map of County Dublin shows a ‘Windmill’ on the N side of a road, opposite the ‘The White Hart’ inn (DU005-054----). On this map the windmill is shown as a tower with a conical-shaped roof and four sails, standing on top of a hill (Rocque 1762). The first edition of the OSi 6-inch map shows a ‘Pigeon Ho.’ at this location. It is possible that the windmill was converted into a dovecote or pigeon house in the late 18th or early 19th-century. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

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