What is recorded here
Freestanding six-bay single-storey over basement fort, built c. 1810, surrounded by moat. Now disused. Inclined cut-limestone parapet with brick chimneystack to roof. Cut-limestone walls with base batter. Timber matchboard door set in segmental-arched recess to accommodate retractable drawbridge. Gun loops and square-headed windows with cut-stone dressings. Detached four-bay single-storey magazine with moat and base batter to site. Snecked stone retaining walls to glacis extending to shore. Cut-stone gate piers set in rubble stone walls.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20406805
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- Charles W Glynn, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- P L Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Garry Dickinson, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Graham Horn, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
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- Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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