Wind Mill

Located on the summit of Feltrim Hill as depicted on Rocque's 1760 Map of County Dublin. where it is shown as a circular-shaped tower with conical roof and four wind-sails..  A photograph of the windmill taken around the year 1890, shows the windmill as a tapering tower standing three storeys high with no roof and an old quarry is visible in close proximity to the windmill (NLI, L_ROY_07917).  According to Flanagan (1984, 52, 59) this structure was erected originally as a woollen mill  by Dutch workers shortly after 1667 using Dutch bricks (1984, 52, 59). It was later converted to a corn mill and operated as such until 1839 when it was also used as a Semaphore Tower transmitting messages from hill to hill as part of a network of hilltop towers transmittin messages between Dublin and Belfast in the early 19th-century (ibid.)   Windmill demolished on the 23rd of October in 1973 except for the base.   Today  substantial remains of the base survive located on a precipice overlooking a modern quarry which surrounds the base of the windmill.  Compiled by:  Caimin O'Brien