Survey Data
Reg No
15704622
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Mill (wind)
Date
1700 - 1777
Coordinates
290779, 109119
Date Recorded
18/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding single-bay three-stage conical windmill tower, extant 1777, on a circular plan. In use, 1922. Now in ruins. Roof now missing. Coursed rubble "Old Red Sandstone" battered walls retaining sections of lime rendered or roughcast surface finish. Square-headed opposing door openings with overgrown thresholds, and rendered timber lintels[?] with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings (upper stages) with no sills, and rough hewn "Old Red Sandstone" lintels with no fittings surviving. Interior in ruins. Set in unkempt grounds.
Appraisal
The shell of a windmill tower representing an integral component of the eighteenth-century industrial heritage of south County Wexford [SMR WX046-082----].