Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Windmill
Drum (tuam Rural Ed), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Drum (tuam Rural Ed)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Windmill (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.51883, -8.82553
- SMR number
- GA029-069----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a ridge in gently rolling grassland near NE limits of Tuam town (GA029-199----). Poorly preserved shell of a three-storey circular windmill (D 3.3m, H c. 6m) with opposing doorways at N and S. The 1st and 2nd floors are lit by four single-light rectangular windows at each of the cardinal points. A similar windmill (GA029-0191----) lies c. 870m to W.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Crannogunder 1 mi
- Water mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.