Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Ruined Windmill
Ballyministragh, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Windmill
- Date of construction
- 1820 - 1839
- Address
- Ruined Windmill, [off Comber Road], Ballyministragh, Killinchy, Co Down, BT23
- Townland
- Ballyministragh
- Council
- Ards and North Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.48724, -5.69118
- Date of survey
- 07 July 1998
- HB reference
- HB24/17/048
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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
Ruined stump of a former windmill c.4.5m in diameter (inc. Walls of c.0.75m thickness) and c.3.5m in height. The stump is constructed in random rubble and is roofless. There is a doorway opening to the W ‘side’.
The windmill is set on a rise to the E of the Comber Road, less than 1 mile N of the hamlet of Balloo.
Historical information
This windmill is shown on the 1834 OS map, though it does not appear to be noted in the contemporary valuation records. On the OS map of 1859-60 it is marked flax mill and mentioned in the second valuation of c.1861 as being in the possession of one Thomas Bell.
A cottage just to the south of the stump has a millstone in its front garden, perhaps indicating that this mill may originally have ground corn.
References- Primary sources
1 PRONI OS maps 1st ed. 1834, Co. Down 17.
2 PRONI VAL 1B/320 p.42 (83) 1st valuation Kilmood parish Ballyministragh Td., c.1835.
3 PRONI OS maps 1st rev. 1859-60, Co. Down 17.
4 PRONI 2nd (‘Griffith’s) valuation, Kilmood parish, Ballyministragh Td., c.1861.
Secondary sources
1 E.R.R. Green The industrial archaeology of Co. Down (HMSO 1963), p.55.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
Ruined stump of a flax windmill of pre 1834 origin, which may have been originally built as a corn mill.
Nearby in the register
- 80 Comber RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Craigarusky BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
- Ruined WindmillWindmillunder 1 mi
- 50 Craigarusky RoadHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.