Rahillion Windmill, Donabate

Image credit: Rahillion windmill, Rocque’s Map 1760

Commonly called Carr’s Mill after an 18th century tenant farmer, the remains of McAllister’s windmill, as it is also known, overlook the estuary at the north end of the peninsula at Rahillion. The words ‘love God above all’ are cut into a stone of the windmill and dated 1741.

Did you know….

Rahillion the townland name derives from Ráth Chuilinn which means the fort of the holly

Find out more

Peadar Bates  2001, Donabate & Portrane-a History

Placenames Database of Ireland https://www.logainm.ie/en/16814