Wind Mill, windmill in County Wexford (WX047-043----)

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Situated on a broad, low hill. It is marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map where it is described as a windmill. A mill at Ballyseskin was owned by George Chevers in 1640 (Simington 1943, 134, 163), but it is not known if it was a windmill. This is a cylindrical tower of three storeys (ext. diam. 4.7m; int. diam. 2.8m) with opposing doorways at E (Wth 0.67m; H 1.83m) and W (Wth 0.65m; H 1.79m), surviving complete to a height of c. 6.4m. A series of steps projects from the inner face of the wall at S, rising from inside the E doorway. The inner face of the wall is damaged, but the first floor, which had no openings, was supported on a ledge, and there are 3 slit windows on the second floor. The letters ‘I’ and ‘ID’ are incised on the S side of the W door frame, and the date 174 (?9) is inscribed on a stone over the E doorway. There are traces of an enclosure (diam. c. 25m) around it visible on aerial photograph (CUCAP: AVK 72). On the photograph it is defined by a single fosse-like feature, which may represent the channel created by a pole used to turn the cap.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX047-043

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