Survey Data
Reg No
31311901
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Mill (wind)
Date
1785 - 1790
Coordinates
126632, 262302
Date Recorded
12/01/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding single-bay three-stage tapering windmill tower, dated 1787, on a circular plan. In ruins, 1893. Roof now missing. Part ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone battered walls with rough hewn limestone coping. Square-headed opposing door openings with overgrown thresholds, and remains of rough hewn limestone lintels with no fittings surviving. Square-headed window openings (upper stages) with rough hewn limestone lintels. Interior in ruins. Set back from road on outcrop.
Appraisal
The shell of a windmill tower 'built [1787] by Denis Browne' representing an important component of the late eighteenth-century industrial heritage of County Mayo. Furthermore, a "tin roofed" outbuilding continues to contribute positively to the group and setting values of a self-contained ensemble making a pleasing visual statement in a rural street scene.