List of windmills in Ireland facts for kids
This is a list of windmills in Ireland, split by the thirty-two counties that comprise the island.
Contents
Locations
Cork
Location | Name of mill and coordinate |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
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Cork | Bruce College | tower | Late C18th/early C19th | Truncated and converted | ||
Drinagh | Pumping windmill. Destroyed by fire 26 October 1856. |
Donegal
Location | Name of mill and coordinate |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Murlough | Ballindrait Mill | Tower mill | 1874 |
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Castleknock | Castleknock Windmill | Tower | Late C18th/early C19th | |||
Dalkey | Dalkey Quarry | Wind engine | 1860 | Late 19th century Windmill World |
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Dublin | St Patrick's Mill 53°20′38″N 6°17′02″W / 53.34398°N 6.2840°W |
Tower | c. 1757 | Windmill World | ||
Garristown | Garristown Mill 53°33′47″N 6°23′38″W / 53.56316°N 6.3939°W |
Tower | Windmill World | |||
Rush | Rush Windmill | Tower | Late C18th/early C19th | |||
Skerries | Shallock Hill Mill 53°34′28″N 6°06′48″W / 53.57455°N 6.1132°W |
Tower | 1578 | Windmill World | ||
Skerries | Great Mill 53°34′30″N 6°06′37″W / 53.57501°N 6.1103°W |
Tower | Late 18th century | Windmill World |
Galway
Location | Name of mill and coordinate |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Carrowreagh East | Carrowreagh Windmill | Tower | Mid C18th | |||
Castlegar, County Galway | Castlegar Windmill | Tower | C.1750 | |||
Kinvara | Kinvara Windmill | Tower | 1839 | Late C18th | ||
Newtowneyre | Newtowneyre Windmill | Tower | C.1780 | |||
Tuam | Gold Cave Crescent Windmill | Tower | Mid C18th |
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 |
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 |
Tower | 1839 | 1839 | Windmill World |
Laois
Location | Name of mill and coordinate |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Capard | Capard Windmill | Tower | c.1840 |
Limerick
Location | Name of mill and coordinate |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Limerick | Windmill Street Mill | Tower | Late C18th | Burnt out, 15 November 1814, tower demolished c.1915. | ||
Limerick | Ennis Road Mill | Demolished 1811. | ||||
Limerick | Ballinacurra Mill | Tower | 1800 | Working in 1849 | ||
Shannongrove | Shannongrove Windmill | Tower | 1735 |
Derry
Location | Name of mill and coordinate |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Knockclogrim | Knocklogrim Mill 54°49′00″N 6°36′49″W / 54.81664°N 6.6137°W |
Tower | 1860 | Windmill World | ||
Limavady | Limavady Junction | Titt iron wind engine |
Longford
Location | Name of mill and coordinate |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Elfeet | Elfeet Windmill | Tower | c.1770. | |||
Lanesborough | Knock Windmill | Tower | c.1750. |
Louth
Location | Name of mill and coordinate |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
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Ardee | Christians Hill Mill 53°52′14″N 6°31′24″W / 53.87058°N 6.5232°W |
Tower | 1778 | 1778 | Gone by 1835 Windmill World |
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Dundalk | Carnanbregagh Mill 53°58′45″N 6°25′29″W / 53.97919°N 6.4246°W |
Tower | 1778 | 1778 | Windmill World | |
Dundalk | Seatown Mill 54°00′21″N 6°23′21″W / 54.00583°N 6.3891°W |
Tower | 1790s | Windmill World | ||
Moneyveg | Moneyveg Windmill | Tower | 1837 | |||
Pepperstown | 53°53′15″N 6°31′53″W / 53.88751°N 6.5315°W | Tower | Windmill World | |||
Piperstown | 53°46′59″N 6°20′23″W / 53.78319°N 6.3398°W | Tower | 1756 | Windmill World | ||
Termonfeckin | Termonfeckin Mill 53°46′02″N 6°16′13″W / 53.76712°N 6.2703°W |
Tower | 1778 | 1778 | Windmill World | |
Whitemill | Whitemill Mill 54°02′41″N 6°23′41″W / 54.04463°N 6.3947°W |
Tower | Windmill World |
Meath
Monaghan
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 |
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 | c. 1750 | Windmill World | ||
Elphin | Elphin Mill 53°51′07″N 8°12′19″W / 53.85188°N 8.2053°W |
Tower | c. 1730 | Windmill World | ||
Rindoon | Post | |||||
Rindoon | St John's Woods | Tower |
Waterford
Location | Name of mill and coordinate |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ballinvella | Ballinvella Mill | Tower | Windmill World |
Wexford
Location | Name of mill and coordinate |
Type | Maps | First mention or built |
Last mention or demise |
Photograph |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ballyharty | Ballyharty Windmill | Tower | 1840 | |||
Ballyseskin | Ballyseskin Windmill | Tower | 1749 | |||
Bargy | Bargy Windmill | Tower | 1840 | |||
Clonmines | Clonmines Windmill | Tower | C18th/early C19th | |||
Drinagh South | Drinagh Windmill | Tower | 1840 | |||
Enniscorthy | Vinegar Hill Mill Templeshannon Mill 52°30′05″N 6°33′12″W / 52.50147°N 6.5532°W |
Tower | 1798 | Windmill World | ||
Hardygregan | Tagunnan Windmill | Tower | 1829 | |||
Hook Peninsula | Hook Mill | Tower | Windmill World | |||
Chapel, Kilmore | Chapel Mill 52°11′05″N 6°34′22″W / 52.18480°N 6.5727°W |
Tower | 1836 | Windmill World | ||
Kiltra | KiltraWindmill | Tower | mid/late C19th | |||
Mullanour | 52°18′42″N 6°32′04″W / 52.31157°N 6.5344°W | Tower | Windmill World | |||
Rath | Rath Windmill | Tower | 1777 | |||
Rosslare Harbour | Tagoat Mill 52°14′43″N 6°23′02″W / 52.24533°N 6.3838°W |
Tower | Modern replica built as part of the Yola Farmstead Folk Park, opened in 1969 | Windmill World | ||
Soughnane | Boley's Crossroads Windmill | Tower | 1840 | |||
Tacumshane | Tacumshane Mill 52°12′32″N 6°25′28″W / 52.20877°N 6.4244°W |
Tower | 1846 | Windmill World |
Maps
- 1778 Taylor & Skinner's map of Louth
- 1836 Ordnance Survey
- 1830 Ordnance Survey
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