Blennerville Windmill

Blennerville was the port for Tralee's commercial shipping to and from the Americas and the world,and the windmill was built around 1800, producing flour and adding to the importance of this rich commercial centre.
Unfortunately the wealth created by all this commerce did not reach as far as the hinterland. This port saw the exodus of hundreds of thousands from the surrounding area during the potato famine some 40 years after the windmill was opened to North America (chiefly Gross Isle on the St.Lawrence, St. John New Brunswick, New York, Baltimore and New Orleans) on what were to be known as "coffin ships" due to the Typhoid and other diseases and for which Quarantine centres were set up on Gross Isle and Statin island