1700–1799
Eighteenth-century post windmill built
South Ronaldsay, Kirkhouse Point, Windmill was built as an eighteenth-century post windmill with a solid conical stone base.
Site overview
South Ronaldsay, Kirkhouse Point, Windmill stands at Kirkhouse Point on South Ronaldsay. It is an eighteenth-century post windmill base, also known as Old Windmill, Kirkhouse Point.
Map
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No site photograph is currently available. Images will be added as field visits are carried out.
History
South Ronaldsay, Kirkhouse Point, Windmill is a former windmill at Kirkhouse Point on South Ronaldsay in Orkney. It is also known as Old Windmill, Kirkhouse Point. The surviving structure is the solid conical stone base of an eighteenth-century post mill.
The timber upper structure, sails and machinery have gone, leaving the masonry base as the principal surviving feature. The site was recorded as a post-medieval windmill base in the late twentieth century. No detailed machinery description, ownership sequence, working chronology, or final operating date has been established.
Timeline
1879
Windmill base shown on Ordnance Survey mapping
Kirkhouse Point Windmill was shown as a windmill base on nineteenth-century mapping.
1997
Windmill base recorded
The post-medieval windmill base at Kirkhouse Point was recorded during archaeological survey work.
Sources and records
Trove / Canmore place record; RCAHMS inventory record; Hume industrial archaeology record; Orkney archaeological survey