School: Ceathrú an Chalaidh
- Location:
- Carraholly, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Brian Mac Aodhgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0088, Page 400
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- The butt of a windmill, still remaining in Garavan's garden. it is called the Windmill by the people, so it must have been a Windmill one time, and the village is called the Windmill.
It is of a circular shape. The inside measures twelve feet across. The walls are built of huge stones and good mortar, and is three feet thick. There were two doors opposite one another, three feet wide and six feet high. It must have been at least two storeys high. The first storey is about ten feet high. The walls of the second storey some of which still stands was not as thick as the wall of the ground storey.
Nobody remembers when this mill was working.
Long ago bull's blood was mixed with the mortar to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mairtín Ó Riagáin
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Peter Staunton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonkeen, Co. Mayo
