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Portaferry windmill is a nineteenth-century windmill stump located in Ards, County Down, Northern Ireland. The surviving structure represents the remains of a post mill, a common form of wind-powered milling machinery employed throughout the nineteenth century for grinding grain and other industrial purposes. The monument is recorded in the Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record under the designation HED NI NISMR MonID 7674. Its survival as a fragmentary remain provides evidence of the agricultural and industrial heritage of the Ards peninsula during the Victorian period.
Portaferry windmill. windmill stump is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 7674. View the official record →
Portaferry windmill is a nineteenth-century windmill stump located in Ards, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 7674.
Portaferry windmill. windmill stump dates from the c19th period, and is classified as a windmill. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Portaferry windmill. windmill stump 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 7674.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Platform rath (2.3 km), Tara fort. bivallate rath (3.4 km), Navigation pillar (3.8 km).
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