Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Windmill
Elfeet (Adamson), County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Elfeet (Adamson)
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Wind Mill Stump
- Latest-edition OS map
- Windmill (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 53.59100, -7.97183
- SMR number
- LF021-035----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · 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 hilltop overlooking Lough Ree to the S and SW. Named 'Wind Mill Stump' on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, this may be the remains of the windmill where Sir Silvester Browne, having been forcibly taken from his house (LF021-010002-) in Formoyle by several Irishmen, was hanged, along with Daniel Stubbs, in May 1642 (Hickson 1884, vol. 1, 354, 358). All that survives are partial wall-footings (approx. wall T 0.8m). The shell of a two-storey 19th-century windmill lies c. 3m to the SSW.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 11 February 2013
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.