Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Windmill
Lifford, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lifford
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Wind Mill
- Latest-edition OS map
- Windmill (Site of) (1921)
- Coordinates
- 52.84864, -8.98574
- SMR number
- CL033-125----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a raised area at the top of College Road, Ennis. Listed as Windmill in the SMR (1992) and the RMP (1996). The earliest reference to a windmill at this location is in the Corporation Book of Ennis in 1807 as cited in Ó Dálaigh (2012, 17). Also cited by Ó Dálaigh is the demolition of the windmill by 1855 as noted in the records of the General Valuation Office relating to Ennis.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 24 June 2014
References
Ó Dálaigh, B. 2012 Irish Historic Towns Atlas, No. 25. Ennis. Royal Irish Academy. Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Water mill - vertical-wheeledunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.