What is recorded here
Eldons Fort in County Kildare has reached the ruin stage of defending itself. A bold strategy: let the enemy arrive, inspect the place and realise that conquering it would only leave them responsible for the repairs.
Eldons Fort is recorded as a ruins in County Kildare.
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- JP, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Andrewmc, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
- Alex Passmore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- buzzard525, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Jamie Carroll, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Darrin Antrobus, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Eoghan888 at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
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