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    St Patrick’s Tower

    St Patrick's Tower in the Guinness Complex
    Built c.1757
    In the yard behind this building stand the remains of the tallest smock windmill in Europe. The pear tree at its base dates from c1850.

    A smock windmill had a revolving roof top that allowed the sails to be turned into the wind.

    Are there any more windmills left in Ireland?
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    Originally posted by jembo View Post
    St Patrick's Tower in the Guinness Complex
    Built c.1757
    In the yard behind this building stand the remains of the tallest smock windmill in Europe. The pear tree at its base dates from c1850.

    A smock windmill had a revolving roof top that allowed the sails to be turned into the wind.

    Are there any more windmills left in Ireland?
    Incredible, is that Watling St. Jembo

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      Skerries
      Last edited by bigby; 23-09-2021, 06:10 PM.

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        Windmill at Ballymackney, Co. Monaghan
        taken 10 years ago, near to Ballymackney, Essexford, Killenny, Corcreaghy and Tullygowan, Monaghan, Ireland
        Windmill at Ballymackney, Co. Monaghan © Kieran Campbell cc-by-sa/2.0
        http://www.geograph.ie/photo/718208
        Shown as a tower without sails on Taylor and Skinner's 1778 map of County Louth. Still indicated by the windmill symbol on the OS half-inch sheet 8 as late as 1967 but omitted on the 1978 edition. Hill is shown as Windmill Hill on the 1:50,000 Discovery Series sheet 35. Windmill is in the townland of Aghafad, on a hill above the hamlet of Ballymackney. Situated yards from the boundary with Co. Louth represented by the hedge to right of tower. View looks west to Monalty Lough with the town of Carrickmacross beyond.
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        • #5
          Originally posted by Vico2 View Post
          Incredible, is that Watling St. Jembo
          Tim Finnigan lived in Watling Street !
          We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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            Rush had wan.
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            We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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            • #7
              "Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland."

              due to the prevailing winds

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              • #8
                Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View Post
                Tim Finnigan lived in Watling Street !
                A gentleman Irish mighty odd

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