What is recorded here
Built in 1805 as a response to the threat of invasion from Napoleonic France. Its function was primarily as a station for passing urgent messages from its neighbouring stations west and east or from ships at sea by line of sight readings to Dublin
Places near here
Old Head of Kinsale Signal Towersignal tower · 13 yd
Lusitania MemorialMonument · 38 yd
Old Head of KinsaleVisitor information · 46 yd
Old HeadViewpoint · 72 yd
De Courcey CastleCastle · 258 yd
Bawn in Downmacpatrick OR Old HeadBawn · 300 yd
Enclosure in Downmacpatrick OR Old HeadEnclosure · 400 yd
Hut site in Downmacpatrick OR Old HeadHut site · 457 yd
Lighthouse (in Ruins)Lighthouse · 1045 yd
Minane IslandIsland · 1357 yd
White StrandBeach / strand · 1.7 mi
Garretstown StrandBeach / strand · 2.3 miOther information
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