School: The Neale (B.)
- Location:
- An Éill, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Tomás Mac an Bháird
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- (continued from previous page)in circumferance and eleven feet high, resting on circular plinths of the same material, carved, and about nine inches in height. A remarkable fact about these pillars is that each is hewn out of a single piece of limestone. They support a beautifully carved hexagonal Grecian cornice, about three feet in depth, and surmounted by a projecting cap moulded in vertical lines and delicately carved in many other ways.The Windmill. This building which is in ruins, but is still sufficiently high to be seen to a very considerable radius, is on the lands of Mr. William Madden in the townland of Ballyshingadaun and about half a statute mile south-east of the Neale national school.
This structure which is roofless, and of which no part remains except the external walls, is about twenty-four feet in height, twelve feet in internal diameter, and the walls are about three feet in thickness. The mortar used in its erection is remarkable(continues on next page)
