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Henry Luttrell's 1689 plan of the town and defences of Sligo (see SL014-065014-) shows a redoubt – a small, usually temporary, enclosed defensive work – which had been erected to cover any approach being made to the town along the routeways now known as Barrack Street and Holborn Hill. The plan shows the salient faces…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record SL014-065026
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Phil Richards from London, UK, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
- Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Sheila1988, Wikimedia Commons
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