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Windmill

Drinagh South, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Windmill, Drinagh South, County Wexford, 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
Drinagh South
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Windmill
Latest-edition OS map
Tower (in Ruins)
Coordinates
52.30550, -6.44841
SMR number
WX042-078----

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1811 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6 inch map where it is described as a windmill. It is situated on a wide embankment on the mainland at the W edge of the South Slob of Wexford harbour and on the E side of a quarry that is also marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. This is a cylindrical tower overgrown with ivy. It appears to have three floors (ext. diam. 5.57m; int. diam. 3.78m; H c. 7m) and has opposed doorways at N and S, but there are no visible windows. It functioned as a wind-pump draining the quarries, but it pre-dated the Drinagh cement-works that produced Portland cement from 1880-1923 and used steam-powered pumps (Murphy 1976-7).

The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload/revision: 27 May, 2013

References

Murphy, H. 1976-7 The Drinagh cement-works. Journal of the Wexford Historical Society 6, 38-44.

Nearby in the register

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

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