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Windmill

Streamstown (Moycashel By.), County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Windmill, Streamstown, 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
Streamstown (Moycashel By.)
County
Westmeath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Windmill Stump
Coordinates
53.43084, -7.56214
SMR number
WM031-062----

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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

Situated on a low eminence (349ft/106m OD), in pasture. Annotated ‘Windmill Stump’ on the 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map and depicted as a small, circular-shaped tower with a rectangular-shaped building abutting to SW. The windmill is in the centre of a roughly circular-shaped enclosure (approx. diam. 41m) which is open to S with access route to the public road at S and where it encloses a limekiln which may have been the source of the stone used to construct the windmill tower.
Post-1700 windmill described in 1980-2 as a roughly circular-shaped, ivy clad stump of a windmill (approx. diam. 6.4m; H 4m) with openings (Wth 1.25m; T 0.75-1m) at N and S. There is a considerable amount of rubble within but no trace of a mill wheel or the workings of any machinery. On the interior there is a ledge about 2.5m above the present ground level which probably supported the first floor. The windmill is situated in the centre of a circular-shaped enclosure which is defined by a low tree-lined scarp from SSW-W-N-E-SE, with a field wall at the base. According to local information, there is no known history of the windmill or last date of its use. Monument is visible today as a circular-shaped tower covered in vegetation in a densely overgrown tree-lined circular-shaped enclosure on Digital Globe aerial photography.

Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien.

Date of upload: 21 November 2019

Nearby in the register

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

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