Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Windmill Stump,
Cullintraw, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Windmill
- Date of construction
- 1800 - 1819
- Address
- Windmill Stump,, off Ballygraffan Road,, Cullintraw,, Comber,, Co. Down
- Townland
- Cullintraw
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.53357, -5.72240
- Date of survey
- 22 April 1999
- HB reference
- HB24/15/048
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1794 "Sheet 55. (Cary's England, Wales, and Scotland)." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Ruinous windmill stump in the middle of a field to the S of the Ballygraffan Road, c.1.5 miles SE of Comber town centre.
The stump is in random rubble and stands c.6m high by 3.5m in diameter with walls of roughly a metre thick. It is slightly battered. To the N much of the stump has collapsed and to the S there is a small doorway with a tiny window above.
Historical information
This former windmill is shown on James Williamson’s map of 1810 and on the OS map of 1834. However it is not noted in the first valuation of 1833 and on the OS map of 1858 it is marked as a ‘windmill stump’, suggesting it had been abandoned by that stage.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI D.616 James Williamson’s Maps of County Down.
2 PRONI VAL 1B/316 1st valuation, Comber.
3 PRONI OS/1/3/10 OS map 1st ed. 1834, Down 10.
4 PRONI OS/6/3/10/3 OS map 1st rev. 1858, Down 10.
Secondary sources
1 E.R.R. Green, ‘The Industrial Archaeology of Co. Down’ (Belfast HMSO 1963), p.54.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Ruinous rubble-built windmill stump of pre 1810 origin.
Nearby in the register
- Cattogs,Houseunder 1 mi
- Dolmen,Archaeological Siteunder 1 mi
- Cullintraw Bridge,Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Crosshillburn Bridge,Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.