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Windmill

Ballybrennan Big, County Wexford, Ireland

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

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

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

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