Look more closely, though, and the geometry gives it away: a conical base nearly ten metres in external diameter, opposing doorways facing east and west, and three floors that once housed the machinery of a working windmill. That combination of scale, form, and orientation is not accidental. It belongs to a type of purpose-built mill tower that was once more common across the south-east of Ireland than surviving examples might suggest.

The tower appears on Taylor and Skinner's road map of 1783, positioned just north of the road running between Duncormick and Bannow, which places it firmly within the late eighteenth-century agricultural landscape of the baronies along Wexford's southern coast. By the time the Ordnance Survey produced its six-inch map in 1839, the structure was still being labelled as a windmill, suggesting it remained recognisable as such, if not necessarily still in operation. The building measures 9.65 metres in external diameter at the base, with an internal diameter of 7.25 metres, dimensions that would have accommodated a substantial set of millstones and the timber gearing needed to transfer power from the sails. None of that internal fabric survives today; the three floors are empty, and no fixtures or fittings remain to indicate how the mill was fitted out or who built it.