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Derry Windmill is a seventeenth-century post-medieval windmill located in Derry, Northern Ireland. The structure stands on bedrock of the Southern Highland Group, Cambrian psammites and pelites that underlie much of this region, providing a stable geological foundation typical of early modern industrial sites in Ulster. The windmill represents the period when grain processing technology became increasingly sophisticated across Irish settlements, with such structures serving both commercial and domestic milling needs in the growing urban and agricultural landscape of the period.
The monument is protected by the Historic Environment Division of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency under designation 11916, reflecting its significance as evidence of seventeenth-century economic and technological activity. The survival of windmill structures from this era is relatively uncommon in Northern Ireland, making this example of particular archaeological and historical importance. Its location within Derry's established settlement area indicates the integration of industrial processing into the fabric of the early modern town, serving the local grain trade and domestic requirements of the period.
C17th windmill - ihr 02409 is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 11916. View the official record →
Derry Windmill is a seventeenth-century post-medieval windmill located in Derry, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 11916.
C17th windmill - ihr 02409 dates from the post-med period, and is classified as a windmill. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
C17th windmill - ihr 02409 is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 11916.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Linear, connected cellars (0.9 km), Ebrington barracks. fortification (1.4 km), St brecan's chapel, st columb's chapel, domnach min-cluane. chapel & graveyard on earlier site (1.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of C17th windmill - ihr 02409's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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C17th windmill - ihr 02409 stands on Southern Highland Group, bedrock that formed in the Middle Cambrian. The rock here is psammite and pelite.