Windmill in Duncannon, County Wexford

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What is recorded here

A windmill is depicted as a post-mill, that is a mill built around a central wooden post, on a plan of Duncannon fort (WX044-015001-) made by Capt. Pynnar in 1624 (Hore 1900-11, vol. 4, 34-5), and a contemporary drawing of the siege of the fort in 1645 made by La Loue (ibid. 144-5; Colfer 2004, 98, Fig. 10) shows the stump of a tower windmill. Its precise location is not known, but it would be close to where the Roman Catholic church of the Star of the Sea is now located.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WX044-050

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