The Dutch boy and the Windmill
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Where: Leinster, Louth, Ireland
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Ten years ago I would have known very little about Dundalk but when members of the family moved there that all changed and now I am enchanted by the town, it's people and the hinterland. The "Dutch boy" is not Dutch but looks like the images of such boys from the last century. The windmill is a fine looking example of such astructure though it had already fallen into disuse and disrepair when Mr. French went calling. I have no idea of the mills location in the town but no doubt we can find it?
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865 - 1914
NLI Ref: L_CAB_05973
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Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865 - 1914
NLI Ref: L_CAB_05973
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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O Mac
The tower is very much still there. 3 Sráid Na Cé maps.app.goo.gl/RtR8VfeuYT8DvUax9
O Mac
This photograph was originally in the Eblana collection. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000561477
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Next in the catalogue a reverse-ish view - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000334686 And a Royal plate reverse-ish with three "Dutch" boys - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000322904
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For sale recently - www.independent.ie/regionals/louth/dundalk-news/seatown-w... " ... We believe the mill was constructed in 1790 and was run for many years by James Kieran who later sold the mill in about 1820 to a Patrick Callan. We know that the mill was at its busiest time during the Napoleonic War in about 1808. ... ... "Although the windmill officially dates back to around 1790, it is thought it may have originally been constructed much earlier possibly as far back as the 12th or 13th century. ... ... "A wooden gallery originally surrounded the mill, but it and the wooden sails were removed in 1870 because of their dilapidated condition."
Niall McAuley
The NIAH record says that the windmill dates from 1800, and it says it Probably related to the mill from which Mill Street, located to the north, gets its name. looking at the 6" and 25", I don't think so. The 1830s 6" shows the windmill, Mill Street is unnamed, and the mill does not front onto it.. The 1900ish 25" shows the Windmill disused, and a massive new Flour mill with a chimney, suggesting steam power, on the named Mill Street.
suckindeesel
www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/13706... NIAH
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03 deserves a compliment from the special fish!!!
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Only just noticed the fella in the window ...
Niall McAuley
L_CAB_05971 nearby is the Redemptorist Church, 1890 or later. In the other direction, L_CAB_05977 features this c.1900 house. L_CAB_05978 shows Dundalk House, replaced by this office block in 1909.
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Do I see two more faces in the topmost window?
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] Here is a Patrick Callan in the 1901 census in Seatown, Dundalk. Looks a bit unpromising, as he is a Cattle Dealer, but Form B1 shows that he lives in a Public House. The 25" shows that then, as now, the Windmill Bar was on the corner of Seatown Place and Quay St. 2022 Streetview shows the bar is for sale as a 0.2 acre development site. Indeed, a (possibly shortlived) sales brochure.
Niall McAuley
That Patrick Callan can't be the same one, we are 80 years after the sale, but it might be a descendant. I would check his father's name on his marriage record, if only he was married.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Yikes! It is full of zombies.
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suckindeesel
Niall McAuley There’s a stream running alongside Quay St. which could have fed the steam boiler of the flour mill.
O Mac
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32162360@N00/ Thanks... you're a good sole.
suckindeesel
beachcomber australia So post 1870 as sails and gallery are gone in photo.