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What is recorded here

Freestanding square-plan two-bay four-stage former signal tower, built 1805, with recent extensions (north-west) and renovations. Now in use as domestic house. Flat roof. Smooth rendered walls with rubble stone bartizans (north-east and south-west elevations). Square-headed openings with replacement timber windows and stone sills. Recent square-headed timber windows to bartizans. Square-headed door opening to first-stage with recent timber glazed door, recessed keystone and recent flight of steps.

One of a network of signal towers built around the south, east and west coasts in the early nineteenth century to ensure a quick response to attempted invasion, following a failed effort by a French fleet to land at Bantry in 1796. Now largely refurbished, this example retains the typical square-plan, first stage entrance and bartizans.

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