What is recorded here

The Battery is a small promontory projecting into Castlehaven, its neck cut by two rock-cut fosses and a 1.2m ridge that may have supported a drawbridge. In 1651 a warrant went to Richard Townshend to build a new fortification there, though no wall or turret still shows. The inner fosse is four metres wide with a flat bottom, and the sea face rises three and a half metres before easing into a low ramp at the south end. What is missing is the building itself; what remains is the shape of the decision made to keep that inlet closed.

Small promontory at mouth of inlet projecting E into Castlehaven. Neck defined by two rock cut fosses leaving an intervening ridge (H 1.2m). Possible draw-bridge support. Inner fosse (Wth 4m) flat bottomed; defined on seaward side by vertical rock face (H c. 3.5m) with low ramp at S end. Warrant issued 1651 to Co. Richard Townshend (Porter 1984, 130) describes construction of new fortification to defend Castlehaven which probably refers to this site. No visible surface trace of structure described within. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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