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Windmill stump is a nineteenth-century industrial monument located near Ards in County Down, Northern Ireland. The structure stands on Sherwood Sandstone Group bedrock of Ladinian age, which underlies the surrounding landscape as a reddish sandstone interspersed with siltstone and mudstone. This geological foundation provided a relatively stable base for the construction of the mill, though the softer strata would have required careful ground preparation.
The windmill represents the period when wind power was harnessed extensively across Ireland to drive grain mills and other industrial machinery. Only the substantial base or stump of the structure survives today, the rotating superstructure having been lost or dismantled over the intervening centuries. The precise function and operational dates of this particular mill can be established through consultation with reference 2815 in the Irish Historic Monuments database.
The site is protected by the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities under reference 6607, reflecting its significance as a record of nineteenth-century rural industry and technology. The windmill's position near Ards places it within a landscape shaped by agricultural practice and maritime influence, where such mills formed essential infrastructure for processing the local grain harvest.
Windmill stump (c.f. ihr 2815 for details) is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 6607. View the official record →
Windmill stump is a nineteenth-century industrial monument located near Ards in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 6607.
Windmill stump (c.f. ihr 2815 for details) dates from the c19th period, and is classified as a windmill. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Windmill stump (c.f. ihr 2815 for details) 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 6607.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Kelp grid (1.1 km), Greyabbey bay. submerged woodland (1.5 km), The ragheries. wooden fish trap (1.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Windmill stump (c.f. ihr 2815 for details)'s history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Windmill stump (c.f. ihr 2815 for details) stands on Sherwood Sandstone Group, bedrock that formed in the Ladinian. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.