Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Windmill
Ballybrennan Big, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballybrennan Big
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Windmill (Disused)
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.26080, -6.43462
- SMR number
- WX048-001002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1811 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on a slight rise on a low-lying landscape, the windmill is depicted as operational on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Lewis records that it had recently been erected by R. Jones, the tenant of Ballybrennan (Lewis 1837, vol. 1, 124). This is a conical tower (ext. diam. 8.8m at base; int. diam. 6.2m) surviving almost complete (H c. 7m). The entrance on the ground floor is from the farmyard at N and a wide opening at E led to an attached barn. At the first floor there was an entrance at S from the slope of the hill, and a wider opening at E accessed the barn, which was probably built with the mill. There is evidence of a third storey on the mill.
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: 2 January 2014
References
Lewis, S. 1837 A topographical dictionary of Ireland, 2 vols. London. Lewis and Co.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.