Here’s a summary of the construction and history of Kirkop Windmill in Kirkop, Malta:
The Kirkop (Kircop) windmill destroyed
Quick factual summary
Name / variants: Kirkop windmill (often written Kircop in older sources).
Type: recorded as a tower (round) windmill in standard Maltese windmill catalogues.
Survival / status: Demolished (no standing tower remains recorded in public sources).
Construction date: Not published/confirmed. Many village mills in Malta were built in the 17th–18th centuries (some under Cottoner-era foundations),
Documentation level: Very limited in publicly available sources — the usual secondary compilations list Kirkop but provide no coordinates, plans, or photographic record.
What is reliably known and where that comes from
The mill appears in compiled lists of Maltese windmills (the national listings / specialist databases) where it is simply catalogued as Kirkop — tower mill — demolished. Those compiled lists are the core published references that record the mill’s existence but not its precise location or dates.
No open-access Ordnance Survey (OS) sheet, cadastral plan or archival notarial contract that I can find online clearly identifies the tower footprint for Kirkop.
Approximate search area (where to look on maps)
Village centre / parish area is the most plausible search window. Use the modern Kirkop centre as a starting box (approx 35.842° N, 14.485° E) and examine late-19th/early-20th OS / cadastral sheets for any mill symbol or a circular building footprint in that grid. If the tower survived into the OS survey it should be visible on the 1896–1927 OS sheets.
Likely construction & use (inferred from Maltese typology)
Typical features (if it followed common practice): a tapering limestone tower, internal floors for stones and storage, a rotating cap with sails, used to grind local grain for village consumption and provisioning. If built in the 17th–18th century, it would have functioned for the local agrarian community until industrial milling made it obsolete.