Fish palace in Scilly, County Cork

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What is recorded here

Went (1946, 140) records site of pilchard press at Scilly in Kinsale. No visible surface trace. 1842 OS 6-inch map shows two parallel rectangular structures (long axes NE-SW) in area known locally as "the palace"; ruined residential structure may be remains of these. Immediately to SW, ruined rectangular 2-storey, 11-bay structure (long axis N-S) to SW, date plaque inscribed "1840", is known locally as "fish factory".

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record CO112-061

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David Dixon, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Picture: The Boathouse Gallery
Christopher Michel, Wikimedia Commons
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