Site overview
South Ronaldsay, Kirkhouse Point, Windmill is recorded by Trove and Canmore as a windmill at Kirkhouse Point, South Ronaldsay. The record also gives the alternative name Old Windmill, Kirkhouse Point. The surviving structure is described as the solid conical stone base of a post mill of eighteenth-century date.
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History
South Ronaldsay, Kirkhouse Point, Windmill is a former windmill site at Kirkhouse Point on South Ronaldsay in Orkney. Trove and Canmore record the site under this name and also give Old Windmill, Kirkhouse Point as an alternative name. The site is classified as a windmill and is described as the solid conical stone base of a post mill.
Hume identified the site as an eighteenth-century old windmill. Later survey work recorded the circular windmill stump as part of a threatened buildings survey in 2006. No detailed working chronology, ownership sequence, machinery description, or final working date has been established from the sources checked.