Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB24/01/082

Address :
Windmill stump Ballyblack Road Kearney Portaferry Co Down

Townland:
Kearney

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Windmill

Former Use
Windmill

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
Yes

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
Yes

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
207/6

IG Ref:
J6411 5158

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Owner Category

Private

Exterior Description And Setting

Ruined stump of a pre 1805 windmill, set in a field near the SE coast of the Ards Peninsula in Kearney Townland, near the convergence of the Ballyblack and Newcastle Roads, c.3 miles SE of Portaferry. The stump is in random rubble and measures roughly c.6.5m x 7.5m. It has two ground level flat arch entrances and two small first floor openings. Nothing remains of the interior except a few odd timbers and various recesses in the (0.75m thick) walls indicating that this mill had at least three levels.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

This windmill is shown on James Williamson's map map of 1810. In the 1836 valuation it is recorded as being a corn mill with one pair of stones and thirty year old machinery, which suggests that the mill itself was built prior to c.1805. At this point the mill was in the possession of a Widow Hasty (or Hastings), but by 1861 had been acquired by a Hugh McMullan . In 1977 the 'Journal of the Upper Ards Historical Society' reported that ‘within memory’ the mill had been in use and had been worked by three sisters Mary, Sarah and Hessie McMullan (undoubtedly relatives of the aforementioned Hugh), but in a more thoroughly researched article by Fred Hammond in the 1989 edition of the same journal, it is said to have been operative only up to the period 1867-71. References- Primary sources 1 PRONI D.616 James Williamson’s ‘Maps of the County of Down’ 2 PRONI OS/6/3/32/1 Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st ed., 1834, Down sheet 32 3 PRONI VAL/1B/38 First valuation, Parish of Ballytrustan, 1836 4 'Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland Vol.7: Parishes of County Down II', ed. Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams (QUB 1991), p. 15 5 PRONI OS/6/3/32/2 Ordnance Survey Maps, 1st rev., 1860, Down sheet 32 6 PRONI Second valuation, Parish of Ballytrustan, 1861 (in print) 7 PRONI OS/6/3/32/3 Ordnance Survey maps, 2nd ed., 1899-1900, Down sheet 32 Secondary sources 1 E.R.R. Green, 'The Industrial Archaeology of County Down' (Belfas HMSO, 1963), p.57 2 Dr. F. Duff, "Windmills around Portaferry and District" in 'Journal of Upper Ards Historical Society, No.1' (1977), p. 14 3 Fred Hammond, "Flax mills of the Upper Ards 1800-1900: Part 1" in 'Journal of the Upper Ards Historical Society, No.13' (1989), pp.25-28

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

Ruined stump of a pre 1805 windmill.

General Comments

Date of Survey

12 August 1997