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Windmill

Crooke, County Waterford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Windmill, Crooke, County Waterford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Crooke
County
Waterford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Wind Mill (in ruins)
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.23597, -6.97517
SMR number
WA018-010----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Situated on a hill overlooking the Barrow/Suir estuary and Passage East (WA018-009----). Described as 'in ruins' on the 1840 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. A cylindrical tower (ext. diam. 5.3m; int. diam. 3.5m) surviving to the first floor (max. H 4.8m) with opposing doorways at WNW and ESE. Stairs project from the inner face of the wall and rise from the WNW doorway, curving around the wall anti-clockwise to the first floor which has one surviving window. The ground floor has two alcoves. Archaeological testing (03E0606 ext.) by Stuart D. Elder within 25m to the W failed to produce any related material (Elder 2006c). (Decie 1983, 46)

Decie. (1983) Old Waterford Society Survey. Decies No. 24, 42-57.
Elder, S. D. (2006c) Knockroe. No archaeological significance. in I. Bennett (Ed.) Excavations 2003: summary accounts of excavations in Ireland, 507, No. 1912. Wordwell, Bray.

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Waterford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload/revision: 07 February 2011

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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