What is recorded here

Killiney Battery No. 7 stands 250 feet above the sea, its three 24-pounder guns still mounted against the Martello tower where Colonel Benjamin Fisher completed the defence in 1805. Behind the guns a lean-to building hides a vertical shaft that once climbed into the tower’s first floor, linking gunner and guard in a single breath of stone. Houses have closed around it since, but the battery remains exposed, pointing inland as if waiting for a ship that never came.

Martello Tower (DU026-011----) and battery No. 7 (Kerrigan 1995, 170). Located east of Killiney Hill Road (R119) and is located in an urbanised area of housing. According to Kerrigan (1995, 168) construction of the Dublin area Martello Towers and their batteries commenced in 1804 under the supervision of Colonel Benjamin Fisher of the Royal Engineers and by December 1805 all towers were armed and complete. Tower and battery No. 7 described by Kerrigan (1995, 173) as; 'just under a quarter of a mile inland are tower and battery no. 7, some 250 feet above sea level. Here the tower and battery survive, the three gun battery (of 24-pounders) linked to the tower on the south-east side. Built against the tower and at the rear of the battery is a single-storey structure, covered until recently by a lean-to slate roof. There was access from this building to the first-floor level of the tower by means of a vertical recess within the wall thickness of the tower' Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 23 January 2023

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