List of windmills in Ireland

This is a list of windmills in Ireland, split by the thirty-two counties that comprise the island.

Contents

Locations

Down

See List of windmills in County Down

Dublin

Location Name of mill and
coordinate		 Type Maps First mention
or built		 Last mention
or demise		 Photograph
Dalkey Dalkey Quarry Wind engine 1860[1] Late C19th[1]
Windmill World
Dublin St Patrick's Mill
 Tower c1757 Windmill World
Garristown Garristown Mill
 Tower Windmill World
Skerries Shallock Hill Mill
 Tower 1578[2] Windmill World
Skerries Great Mill[3]
 Tower Late C18th[2] Windmill World

Kerry

Location Name of mill and
coordinate		 Type Maps First mention
or built		 Last mention
or demise		 Photograph
Tralee Blennerville Mill
 Tower 1800 Windmill World

Kilkenny

Location Name of mill and
coordinate		 Type Maps First mention
or built		 Last mention
or demise		 Photograph
Croan Croan Mill
 Tower 1839 1839 Windmill World

Londonderry

Location Name of mill and
coordinate		 Type Maps First mention
or built		 Last mention
or demise		 Photograph
Knockclogrim Knocklogrim Mill[4]
 Tower 1860[5] Windmill World
Limavady Limavady Junction[6] Titt iron wind engine

Louth

Location Name of mill and
coordinate		 Type Maps First mention
or built		 Last mention
or demise		 Photograph
Ardee Christians Hill Mill
 Tower 1778 1778 Gone by 1835
Windmill World
Dundalk Carnanbregagh Mill
 Tower 1778 1778 Gone by 1835
Windmill World
Dundalk Seatown Mill
 Tower 1790s[7] Windmill World
Pepperstown Tower Windmill World
Piperstown Tower Windmill World
Termonfeckin Termonfeckin Mill
 Tower 1778 1778 Windmill World
Whitemill Whitemill Mill
 Tower Windmill World

Meath

Location Name of mill and
coordinate		 Type Maps First mention
or built		 Last mention
or demise		 Photograph
Balrath Balrath Mill
 Tower Windmill World
Bartramstown Bartramstown Mill
 Tower Windmill World
Corballis Corballis Mill
 Tower 1836 1836 Windmill World
Stameen Stameen Mill
 Tower Windmill World

Monaghan

Location Name of mill and
coordinate		 Type Maps First mention
or built		 Last mention
or demise		 Photograph
Ballymackney Ballymackney Mill
 tower 1778 1778 Windmill World
Carrivetragh Carrivetragh Mill
 Tower Windmill World

Ofally

Location Name of mill and
coordinate		 Type Maps First mention
or built		 Last mention
or demise		 Photograph
Cloghan Beg Cloghan Beg Mill
 Tower Windmill World

Roscommon

Location Name of mill and
coordinate		 Type Maps First mention
or built		 Last mention
or demise		 Photograph
Correal Lobinroe Mill Tower c1750[8] Windmill World
Elphin Elphin Mill
 Tower c1730[8] Windmill World
Rindoon Post[9]
Rindoon St John's Woods Tower[9]

Waterford

Location Name of mill and
coordinate		 Type Maps First mention
or built		 Last mention
or demise		 Photograph
Ballinvella Ballinvella Mill[10] Tower[10] Windmill World

Wexford

Location Name of mill and
coordinate		 Type Maps First mention
or built		 Last mention
or demise		 Photograph
Enniscorthy Vinegar Hill Mill
 tower 1798[11] Windmill World
Hook Peninsula Hook Mill Tower Windmill World
Libgate Libgate Mill
 Tower Windmill World
Mullanour Tower Windmill World
Rosslare Harbour Tagoat Mill
 Tower Windmill World
Tacumshane Tacumshane Mill
 Tower 1846[12] Windmill World

Maps

Notes

Mills in bold are still standing, known building dates are indicated in bold. Text in italics denotes indicates that the information is not confirmed, but is likely to be the case stated.

Sources

Unless stated otherwise, the sources for these entries are Windmill World, Eire mills and Windmill World, Northern Ireland mills

References

  1. ^ a b "Dalkey Windmill". Dalkey. http://www.dalkeyhomepage.ie/windmill.html. Retrieved 22 June 2009. 
  2. ^ a b "The Mills in Skerries - A little history". Skerries Mills. http://www.skerriesmills.org/mills.htm. Retrieved 22 June 2009. 
  3. ^ Five sails
  4. ^ Six Sails
  5. ^ "Your Place and Mine". BBC Radio Ulster. http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/londonderry/A803602.shtml. Retrieved 22 June 2009. 
  6. ^ Major, J Kenneth (1977). The Windmills of John Wallis Titt. The International Molinological Society. 
  7. ^ Caroline McGill. "THE TALLEST WINDMILL IN IRELAND". Irish Ancestries. http://www.irishancestries.com/articles/article-seatownwindmill-p1.htm. Retrieved 22 June 2009. 
  8. ^ a b "4.8. INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY". Roscommon County Council. http://www.roscommoncoco.ie/services/heritage/Heritage%20Access%20Audit%20of%20Co.%20Roscommon/Section%204%20Cultural%20Heritage%20Inventory,%204.8%20Industrial%20Archaeology.pdf. Retrieved 22 June 2009. 
  9. ^ a b "Windmill". g8-w8. http://www.g8-w8.com/rindoon/Windmill.htm. Retrieved 2 July 2009. 
  10. ^ a b "BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS GREGORY (GREG) FEWER". Greg Fewer. Archived from the original on 2009-10-24. http://web.archive.org/web/20091024182526/http://geocities.com/gregory_fewer/bibtgf.htm. Retrieved 22 June 2009. 
  11. ^ "Vinegar Hill Windmill". Go Ireland. http://www.goireland.com/wexford/vinegar-hill-windmill-attraction-windmills-id12308.htm. Retrieved 22 June 2009. 
  12. ^ "Tacumshane Windmill". Go Ireland. http://www.goireland.com/wexford/tacumshane-windmill-attraction-windmills-id12366.htm. Retrieved 22 June 2009.