What is recorded here
Napoleonic fortification situated in a modern housing estate on the NW side of Athlone town, on an elevated site, abutting Athlone Canal to E and the River Shannon 475m to E. Annotated 'Ordnance Ground' and depicted on the 1837 OS 6-inch map as a substantial polygonal-shaped fortified complex (approx. dims. 380m…
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From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record WM029-011
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- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Pat Byrne, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
- Peter Gerken, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- PatWhelehan, Wikimedia Commons
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