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Cole's Bastion — Ship Street Little

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Cole's Bastion — Ship Street Little
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Mural tower and city wall, built c. 1220, tower modified later and rebuilt c. 1850 as five-sided bastion. Snecked limestone walls with dressed limestone quoins and rendered rounded coping. Stretches of snecked and coursed limestone city wall abut to east, with significant batter to base of south elevation; rubble limestone city wall to west with upper sections rebuilt in red brick. Granite War Department marker and granite city wall marker with inset plaque to south face. Wall and bastion line north side of Ship Street Little, terminated to east by arched entrances to Castle steps and Ship Street entrance and bridge to Dublin Castle complex.

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