What is recorded here

Indicated is an 18th-century windmill on Windmill Hill in County Dublin, built over a older mill first written about in 1413. Its round stone body still stands two storeys high, with narrow windows, a western fireplace and doors cut for heavy bars. It is not a grand showpiece, but a working shape repeated across centuries: a hill, a tower and wind doing the labor of people below.

Situated on top of Windmill Hill. The site comprises a circular tower that rises to two storeys. It is built of randomly coursed masonry (int. diam.2.8m, wall T 1.20m). There are segmental arched doorways in the NE and SW, which are rebated with bar holes. A fireplace lies to the W on the ground floor. In the SE is an inter-mural pointed recess. Stone stairs lead to first floor. The interior is lit by plain rectangular opes in NE and S sides. This windmill is probably 18th century in date but it occupies the site of an earlier windmill referred to in 1413 AD. (D'Alton 1838, 677). Compiled by Geraldine Stout Uploaded on: 18 January 2013

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