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Banagher Martello Tower

Martello tower
Banagher Martello Tower
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Banagher Martello Tower stands inland beside the Shannon, built against the threat of Napoleon. Even this far from the sea, nobody was taking chances on a French army asking directions and being told, ‘Keep going, you can’t miss it.’

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Detached tapered profile two-storey Martello tower, constructed c.1805, currently not in use. Standing on west side of River Shannon at Banagher Bridge. Cut limestone coping and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ashlar limestone walls with projecting plinth course. Square-headed opening at first floor level of south side with sloping sill and with projecting brackets to east side of opening. Square-headed openings to north and south sides with cast-iron grills to openings.
Strategically sited to protect the river crossing at Banagher, this solidly built Martello tower is part of an important group of buildings constructed in Britain and Ireland in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to protect against a threatened Napoleonic invasion. This tower is of special importance due to its inland location on the River Shannon, and forms a group with the impressive Banagher Bridge and 'Cromwell's Castle, an earlier fortication nearby.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30410906

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Pictures: Brian Shaw, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Brian Shaw, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Corcs999, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Kieran Campbell, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; JohnArmagh, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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