List of windmills in Ireland

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

Locations

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Dublin

Location	Name of mill and coordinate	Type	First mention or built	Last mention or demise
Dalkey	Dalkey Quarry	Wind engine	1860^[1]	Late 19th century^[1] Windmill World
Dublin	St Patrick's Mill 53°20′38″N 6°17′02″W / 53.34398°N 6.2840°W / 53.34398; -6.2840	Tower	c. 1757	Windmill World
Garristown	Garristown Mill 53°33′47″N 6°23′38″W / 53.56316°N 6.3939°W / 53.56316; -6.3939	Tower		Windmill World
Skerries	Shallock Hill Mill 53°34′28″N 6°06′48″W / 53.57455°N 6.1132°W / 53.57455; -6.1132	Tower	1578^[2]	Windmill World
Skerries	Great Mill^[3] 53°34′30″N 6°06′37″W / 53.57501°N 6.1103°W / 53.57501; -6.1103	Tower	Late 18th century^[2]	Windmill World

Kerry

Location	Name of mill and coordinate	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Tralee	Blennerville Mill 52°15′24″N 9°44′14″W / 52.25669°N 9.7373°W / 52.25669; -9.7373	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 52°28′40″N 7°16′06″W / 52.47790°N 7.2684°W / 52.47790; -7.2684	Tower	1839	1839	Windmill World

Derry

Location	Name of mill and coordinate	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Knockclogrim	Knocklogrim Mill^[4] 54°49′00″N 6°36′49″W / 54.81664°N 6.6137°W / 54.81664; -6.6137	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
Ardee	Christians Hill Mill 53°52′14″N 6°31′24″W / 53.87058°N 6.5232°W / 53.87058; -6.5232	Tower	1778	1778	Gone by 1835 Windmill World
Dundalk	Carnanbregagh Mill 53°58′45″N 6°25′29″W / 53.97919°N 6.4246°W / 53.97919; -6.4246	Tower	1778	1778	Gone by 1835 Windmill World
Dundalk	Seatown Mill 54°00′21″N 6°23′21″W / 54.00583°N 6.3891°W / 54.00583; -6.3891	Tower		1790s^[7]	Windmill World
Pepperstown	53°53′15″N 6°31′53″W / 53.88751°N 6.5315°W / 53.88751; -6.5315	Tower			Windmill World
Piperstown	53°46′59″N 6°20′23″W / 53.78319°N 6.3398°W / 53.78319; -6.3398	Tower			Windmill World
Termonfeckin	Termonfeckin Mill 53°46′02″N 6°16′13″W / 53.76712°N 6.2703°W / 53.76712; -6.2703	Tower	1778	1778	Windmill World
Whitemill	Whitemill Mill 54°02′41″N 6°23′41″W / 54.04463°N 6.3947°W / 54.04463; -6.3947	Tower			Windmill World

Meath

Location	Name of mill and coordinate	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise
Balrath	Balrath Mill 53°37′24″N 6°28′50″W / 53.62334°N 6.4806°W / 53.62334; -6.4806	Tower			Windmill World
Bartramstown	Bartramstown Mill 53°35′36″N 6°22′40″W / 53.59341°N 6.3779°W / 53.59341; -6.3779	Tower			Windmill World
Corballis	Corballis Mill 53°40′17″N 6°15′24″W / 53.67135°N 6.2566°W / 53.67135; -6.2566	Tower	1836	1836	Windmill World
Stameen	Stameen Mill 53°42′57″N 6°17′47″W / 53.71594°N 6.2965°W / 53.71594; -6.2965	Tower			Windmill World

Monaghan

Location	Name of mill and coordinate	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Ballymackney	Ballymackney Mill 53°57′35″N 6°39′25″E / 53.95980°N 6.6569°E / 53.95980; 6.6569	tower	1778	1778	Windmill World
Carrivetragh	Carrivetragh Mill 54°12′28″N 7°13′46″W / 54.20784°N 7.2295°W / 54.20784; -7.2295	Tower			Windmill World

Offaly

Location	Name of mill and coordinate	Type	Maps	First mention or built	Last mention or demise	Photograph
Cloghan Beg	Cloghan Beg Mill 53°10′03″N 8°01′21″W / 53.16758°N 8.0225°W / 53.16758; -8.0225	Tower			Windmill World

Roscommon

Location	Name of mill and coordinate	Type	First mention or built	Last mention or demise
Correal	Lobinroe Mill	Tower	c. 1750^[8]	Windmill World
Elphin	Elphin Mill 53°51′07″N 8°12′19″W / 53.85188°N 8.2053°W / 53.85188; -8.2053	Tower	c. 1730^[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	First mention or built	Last mention or demise
Enniscorthy	Vinegar Hill Mill Templeshannon Mill 52°30′05″N 6°33′12″W / 52.50147°N 6.5532°W / 52.50147; -6.5532	Tower	1798^[11]	Windmill World
Hook Peninsula	Hook Mill	Tower		Windmill World
Libgate	Libgate Mill 52°11′05″N 6°34′22″W / 52.18480°N 6.5727°W / 52.18480; -6.5727	Tower		Windmill World
Mullanour	52°18′42″N 6°32′04″W / 52.31157°N 6.5344°W / 52.31157; -6.5344	Tower		Windmill World
Rosslare Harbour	Tagoat Mill 52°14′43″N 6°23′02″W / 52.24533°N 6.3838°W / 52.24533; -6.3838	Tower		Windmill World
Tacumshane	Tacumshane Mill 52°12′32″N 6°25′28″W / 52.20877°N 6.4244°W / 52.20877; -6.4244	Tower	1846^[12]	Windmill World

Maps

1778 Taylor & Skinner's map of Louth
1836 Ordnance Survey

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 2 "Dalkey Windmill". Dalkey. Retrieved 22 June 2009.
1 2 "The Mills in Skerries - A little history". Skerries Mills. Retrieved 22 June 2009.
↑ Five sails
↑ Six Sails
↑ "Your Place and Mine". BBC Radio Ulster. Retrieved 22 June 2009.
↑ Major, J Kenneth (1977). The Windmills of John Wallis Titt. The International Molinological Society.
↑ Caroline McGill. "THE TALLEST WINDMILL IN IRELAND". Irish Ancestries. Retrieved 22 June 2009.
1 2 "4.8. INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY" (PDF). Roscommon County Council. Retrieved 22 June 2009.
1 2 "Windmill". g8-w8. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
1 2 "BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS GREGORY (GREG) FEWER". Greg Fewer. Archived from the original on 2009-10-24. Retrieved 22 June 2009.
↑ "Vinegar Hill Windmill". Go Ireland. Retrieved 22 June 2009.
↑ "Tacumshane Windmill". Go Ireland. Retrieved 22 June 2009.

Windmills by country

Africa	South Africa Mostert's Mill

Asia	Israel Jerusalem

Australasia	Australia Amelup Brisbane Oatlands Perth

Europe	Belgium Antwerp Brussels-Capital Region East Flanders Flemish Brabant Hainaut Liège Limburg Namur Walloon Brabant West Flanders Channel Islands Guernsey Jersey Czech Republic Ruprechtov Denmark Christianshavn Majbølle England Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cornwall Devon East Sussex Essex Greater London Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Kent Lancashire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Norfolk (drainage mills) Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Shropshire Somerset Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Warwickshire West Sussex Wiltshire Yorkshire (North, South, East, and West) Estonia France Aude Bouches-du-Rhône Charente Maritime Cher Côtes d'Armor Deux-Sèvres Finistère Gironde Haute-Garonne Ille-et-Vilaine Loire-Atlantique Lot-et-Garonne Maine-et-Loire Manche Morbiham Nord Pas-de-Calais Somme Vendée Germany Brandenburg Lower Saxony Mecklenburg-Vorpommern North Rhine-Westphalia Saxony Saxony-Anhalt Thuringia Malta Żurrieq Isle of Man Netherlands Drenthe Friesland Gelderland Groningen Limburg Noord Brabant Noord Holland Overijssel Utrecht Zeeland Zuid Holland Ireland Down Poland Scotland Spain Wales Anglesey

North America	Canada Quebec United States Massachusetts New York Rhode Island

South America	Barbados Morgan Lewis

Windmills in Ireland

County Down:	Ballycopeland

County Kerry:	Blennerville

County Roscommon:	Elphin

County Wexford:	Tacumshane Vinegar Hill

See also: List of windmills

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