Elphin  Windmill

Elphin.     Tel: 083 406 2113

Email: elphinwindmill1740@gmail.com     Web: www.elphinwindmill.blogspot.ie

Built in the first half of the eighteenth century reputedly by Edward Synge, who became the Bishop of Elphin in 1740, the Elphin Windmill is a community run, ‘Not for Profit Operation’. The Windmill was designed & built to grind oats and wheat into meal and flour for the local population. The Elphin Windmill was only used for about 100 years, before being abandoned sometime after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, as flour prices fell across Europe & in Ireland in particular and it was left untended for the following 160 years or so.

In 1992, the derelict tower & site was donated to Elphin Area Community Enterprise Ltd, by Thomas J. O’Beirne and a project was undertaken to raise the funds to fully restore it as a working mill under a FAS Community Youth Training Scheme. The Elphin Windmill was officially opened by International Hollywood Star, Gabriel Byrne on 22 June, 1996.