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What is recorded here
The quiet ground has a harder story. The official built-heritage record describes a fort entered over a bridge, with stone defensive walls and rounded bastions on three corners.
The official built-heritage record describes a fort entered over a bridge, with stone defensive walls and rounded bastions on three corners. It replaced an earlier battery built after 1798, was altered during the nineteenth century and guarded the deep-water anchorage of Lough Swilly.
The official built-heritage record describes a fort entered over a bridge, with stone defensive walls and rounded bastions on three corners.
The story behind this place
The official built-heritage record describes a fort entered over a bridge, with stone defensive walls and rounded bastions on three corners.
The official record says the fort is used as a museum. Check current opening details before travelling.
- What survives
- Recorded built heritage
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