What is recorded here
Windmill Stump in County Down, Ireland, marks an eighteenth-century site where a mill once turned local grain into sustenance. The wooden frame may have vanished, but the stump remains as a scheduled reminder that human ingenuity can still be read in bare earth. People may have gathered there to watch sails catch the wind, measuring prosperity by the rhythm of flour falling into sacks.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as Windmill Stump - cf IHR 2800. Recorded period: C18TH. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Photo: Albert Bridge · CC BY-SA 2.0