Windmill, off Mary Street, Warrenpoint, Newry, Co Down, BT34 3NT

The truncated shell of a slightly tapered tower approached along a lane from Mary Street. Only the four bottom floors now survive, up to and including stage level (no roof). Its base measures 9.36m (30ft 9in) internally and its walls, which are of rendered random rubble (mostly granite), are 1.10m (3ft 7in) thick. There are two diametrically opposite entrances to the ground floor. That to W is 2.26m wide and that to E is 1.90m; the latter has been infilled with random rubble and a smaller doorway created. Both openings have shallow segmental voussoired granite heads. Above the E entrance is a stone incised ‘1802’; the ghost of a small gabled porch abuts. Just left of this latter door is a former window, enlarged to form a doorway, and then infilled with concrete blocks. There is a fourth small doorway to S (now infilled with concrete blockwork). There may be other openings to this floor, now inaccessible from view (and hidden by a blockwork wall internally). There are three windows and two loading doors to the first floor. These and all other windows have dressed granite heads (with timber lintels to the inside), jambs and cills. One of the doors has concrete block infill. The second floor has three windows and one door; one of the windows is infilled with random rubble. Between this floor and the one below are wall sockets denoting the stage bracing timbers. The third floor has two doors (out to the former stage) and four windows. Between this floor and the one below are putlog holes for the external stage (from which the sails and cap winding mechanism were accessed). Interestingly, very few of the openings are in line with one another between floors. Whether or not this was deliberate, such a configuration minimises the possibility of settlement cracking from one opening to the corresponding one above.