Windmill

3 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Windmill, from 2,507 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres) to 121,659 m² (12.17 ha, 30.06 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

• G1Open Space (Open space, park)
  Louth County Development Plan, Louth · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 19 Jan 2026Conditional

  Permission for Minature Monument Windmill Feature and all associated site works

  Permission · Louth County Council, 2660012

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Windmill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Windmill.

Architectural heritage

• The Rectory, rectory/glebe/vicarage/curate's house, 1810–1830 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey over basement former glebe house, built c. 1820, now in use as house. Hipped slate roof, clay hip and ridge tiles, rendered corbelled chimneystack, overhanging eaves, painted timber soffits, moulded metal rainwater goods,. Painted roughcast rendered walling, unpainted smooth rendered walling to basement, painted stone sting course to ground floor. Square-headed window openings, slightly projecting painted smooth rendered reveals, painted tooled stone sills, timber casement windows, horizontal emphasis to central window first floor north elevation, round-headed opening to east multi-paned timber casement window, segmental-headed recessed painted smooth rendered surrounds to ground floor south elevation. Segmental-headed door opening, painted smooth rendered channelled stone, projecting painted rolled stone reveals and soffit, painted timber fanlight over fluted pilasters, quatrefoil capitals and frieze, timber panelled door, five limestone steps, wrought-iron handrail on limestone plinth, wrought-iron railings to basement lightwell, unpainted smooth rendered wall to east, segmental coping, square-plan piers, pyramidal stone caps. Set in extensive farmland accessed via tree-lined avenue, random rubble agricultural outbuildings to east and west, adapted to residential use to east.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Windmill.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Windmill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.

Name

Windmill · An Muileann Gaoithe

Area

136,867 m² (13.69 ha, 33.82 acres)

Civil parish

Dunleer, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Dunleer, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Dunleer electoral division: 3,270 people in 1,088 households; 74% of households own their home; 50% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Drumin, Dunleer, Woodland

Placenames

Windmill on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.