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Windmill

Cannorstown (Chapman), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Windmill, Cannorstown (Chapman), County Westmeath, 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
Cannorstown (Chapman)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Wind Mill
Latest-edition OS map
Windmill (in Ruins)
Coordinates
53.51490, -7.82338
SMR number
WM016-026----

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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)
  • 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

Described in 1980 as 'A circular stone tower built of rubble limestone 5.5m in diam. & approx. 7m high with walls 1m thick. There are wide doorways opposite each other in the NE & SW sides. There are the lines of two upper floors visible inside the tower, the wall is set slightly back to form a narrow ledge to support the floor. Part of the upper wall in the 2nd floor level has been broken away on the NE side. Probably the remains of a 17th C. or 18th C. windmill. Sited on a low rise with wide views in all directions' (SMR file 29/10/1980).
Described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage as a, 'Freestanding former windmill on circular plan, built c.1800. Now ruinous and out of use. Constructed of coursed rubble limestone. Square-headed openings to north face. Located in prominent position in the landscape close to summit of low, gently sloping hill' (www.buildingsofireland.ie).

Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 23 July 2015

Nearby in the register

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

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