Windmill in Maginstown

Windmill

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On broad, flat crest of hill. Civil Survey (1654-6) refers to 'an old Thatcht house with a ruined Wind Mill' on the land of 'Edmond Mocler of Maganstowne Irish Papist' (Simington 1931, vol.1, 213). This windmill stands two storeys high at the E end of a single storey house which appears to be the 'Thatcht house' (TS076-012----) mentioned above. The windmill (int. ground floor dims. 1.41m N-S; 1.24m E-W; N wall T 0.86m; S wall T 1.3m) is access in N from within the hall of a new, early-mid 20th century, extension, at right angles to the old house, it is presently a store room. There is a window in the S wall at ground-floor level. The first floor is accessed from the stairs in the new extension. It is presently used as bedroom with a window on the S and E sides. The windmill is presently roofed by a continuous roof from the 20th century extension. Sides are slightly battered. Interrupted eaves course at angles of roof. Windmill would originally have been three or four storeys high.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record TS076-012001

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