Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Windmill
Dunboden Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunboden Demesne
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Windmill
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44971, -7.34200
- SMR number
- WM033-007----
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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
Depicted as ‘Windmill’ standing inside a tree-lined enclosure, on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map where it is shown located on the demesne lands to the NE of Dunboden Park. According to the OS Name Books the townland of Dunboden contained a ‘fort on which is a windmill’. Only the outline of this enclosure is indicated on the revised 1910 ed. OS 6-inch map which does not depict the windmill. The enclosure of the windmill was inspected in 1976 and described as a roughly circular area (int. dims. 27m N-S; 26m E-W) defined by a narrow and shallow fosse. In the centre of this enclosure are the remains of an irregular-shaped low mound (SMR file). The destroyed windmill originally stood on top of the low mound which was enclosed by a roughly circular area defined by a shallow fosse.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 2 July 2013
Nearby in the register
- Mausoleumunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.