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Windmill

Dunboden Demesne, County Westmeath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Windmill, Dunboden Demesne, 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
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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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

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

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

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