What is recorded here
A windmill is marked on the Down Survey parish map (1656-8) of Mayglass at Randalstown, which then included Silverspring townland. Its precise location is not known, but it is probably in what is today Silverspring townland. See the attached view from the Down Survey parish map (N at bottom) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725).
See the attached view from the Down Survey parish map (N at bottom) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 October, 2013
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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