Windmill

18 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Windmill, from 138 m² to 144,168 m² (14.42 ha, 35.62 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 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.

No zone of a development plan covers Windmill in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

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

No planning application touches the townland of Windmill 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 the townland of Windmill.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Windmill.

Architectural heritage

• Moneyveg Tower, folly, 1835–1840 · Regional interest
  Description

  Freestanding tower, dated 1837. Circular-plan. Random rubble stone walling, ashlar limestone dressing, battered base plinth, crenellated parapet supported on ashlar limestone machicolations. Roof hidden by parapet. Loop and balistraria window openings, ashlar limestone chamfered surrounds, unglazed. Square-headed door opening to west, ashlar limestone surround, now blocked; limestone dedication plaque above with carved limestone hood mould, "This tower was erected to commemorate the election to parliament in January 1837 of Sir Patrick Bellew Bart and Richard M. Bellew Esq. As members for this County. It was commenced in the year of the Coronation of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria whom God long preserve." Tower set back from road on elevated site commanding view over surrounding countryside.

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

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 high, 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.

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

663,917 m² (66.39 ha, 164.06 acres)

Civil parish

Dysart, and its townlands

Barony

Ferrard

Electoral division

Dysart, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,034 people lived in 323 households in the Dysart electoral division. 92% of households owned their home. 38% of homes were built since 2001. 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Barmeath, Briarhill, Dysart, Grangebellew

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.