Windmill
Windmill is a townland in the civil parish of Dunleer, barony of Ferrard, Co. Louth. Its name in Irish is An Muileann Gaoithe.
Parcel 1126138
- Area
- 2,507 m² (0.25 ha, 0.62 acres)
- Buildings
- 1 building touches it. Its footprint covers 227 m².
- Zoning
- No zone of a development plan covers it in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply.
- Townland
- Windmill
Planning applications on this parcel
No planning application touches this parcel in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
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 this parcel.
Recorded monuments around it
No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands on this parcel.
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).
Ground and risks
- Radon
- At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of this parcel.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Download this parcel as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its neighbours and buildings, for a drawing program. GeoJSON, in WGS 84, suits a map, and KML opens in Google Earth.
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.
- Area
- 13.7 ha
- 34 acres
- Land parcels
- 3
- registered freehold, median 5,819 m² (0.58 ha, 1.44 acres)
- Zoning
- G1
- Open Space
- Planning
- 1
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
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 as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- 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.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
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.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
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).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Windmill, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as moderately low, low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Windmill.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under 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.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Windmill with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Louth.
The townland
- 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
- 3,270 people lived in 1,088 households in the Dunleer electoral division. 74% of households owned their home. 50% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- 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.