Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Windmill
Furziestown, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Furziestown
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Wind Mill
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19839, -6.42054
- SMR number
- WX053-057----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
A windmill is depicted on the Down Survey barony map (1656-8) of Forth in Tacumshin parish at Furziestown (16), which then included Hilltown townland. According to the Book of Survey and Distribution (1660s) as part of the Ballymacane manor it would have been owned by Nicholas Stafford in 1640 (Simington 1953, 304). The manor comprised over 600 acres, as well as Lady’s Island Lough, then known as Lough Tougher. An operating windmill is marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map but it had been removed by 1940 (OS map). It is situated on a fairly level landscape, but the location is now occupied by a house. For the Down Survey barony map see this web-page accessed on 20 February, 2014: http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#bm=Forth&c=Wexford
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 25 March, 2014
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1953 The Civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IX: county of Wexford. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.