Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Windmill
Cannorstown (chapman), County Westmeath, Ireland
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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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Bawnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.