Elizabeth Fort (Disused) (1949-50) — Report the wrong picture

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Elizabeth Fort in County Cork, Ireland, stands as a disused bastioned structure where limestone walls still rise above bedrock. Built around an older church and strengthened through the seventeenth century, the fort likely hosted soldiers, guards and temporary occupants before falling quiet. Its angular bastions and rebuilt sections suggest a place shaped by fear, pride and adaptation rather than a single grand design.

Original fort constructed c. 1601, consisted of large irregular earthen structure, built around pre-existing church (CO074-03902-). Replaced by stronger more regular fortification c. 1624; Cromwell said to have raised the walls in 1649; in decayed condition by 1677; new barrack built inside fort in 1719. Irregular quadrilateral with two pentangular bastions on S corners and two sub-rectangular bastions on N corners; built of regular coursed limestone blocks lying in places on underlying bedrock. Demi-oval shaped bastion projects from centre of N wall. S curtain wall removed; newwall constructed between S bastions. Walls, battered externally, survive to internal height of 4-5m, 2m above this appears rebuilt. Addition with entrance gateway added outside original curtain wall to E. L-shaped building along S and W sides of interior accomodates modern Garda barracks.(Mulcahy, MacNamara & O'Brien, 1960). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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