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Windmill (ruins)

Windmill (ruins) is a ruin in the town in Portumna, County Galway, 2.3 km east of the centre.

Kind
Ruins
From the centre
2.3 km east

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Plan of the streets around Windmill (ruins), 340 metres across
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Plan of the surrounding 300 mPlan of the streets around Windmill (ruins), 340 metres across

Getting to Windmill (ruins)

Directions from where you are
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While you are there

Other sites within 3 km: Roach Island (2.1 km), Portumna Friary (2.1 km), Portumna Castle and Gardens (2.3 km), Portumna Castle (2.3 km) and Gate House (2.3 km).

Tower houses, the castles of the Irish countryside

Many of the ruins mapped around Tuam are tower houses, the tall stone farm-castles of the later Middle Ages, built to be lived in with a small household and defended when it came to that, with a vaulted floor against fire, corner bartizans and a machicolation above the door.

Written from Wikipedia, "Tower house" (CC BY-SA 4.0); the words are ours.

Other ruins around Portumna

  1. 2.6 km
  2. 4.2 km
  3. 5.1 km
  4. 6.6 km
  5. 7.0 km
  6. 10.5 km

All 7 ruins around Portumna

Questions people ask

Where is Windmill (ruins)?
In Portumna, County Galway, 2.3 km east of the centre.
Are there other ruins nearby?
6 other ruins around $Portumna; the closest is Portland House, 2.6 km away.

Source record: OpenStreetMap way/1307580153, read on 2026-09-18. The street is the mapped address where there is one, otherwise the nearest named road. Distances are straight lines.