Gibraltar, islet in County Meath

What is recorded here

This is a castellated miniature fort with circular gun-holes and five battlemented towers situated on one of two islands within the lake. It would have been constructed just shortly before, or at the same time as, the famous defence by the British of the

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National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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