Watch tower in Brownstown, County Waterford

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Freestanding single-bay single-storey flat-roofed lookout post ("LOP"), between 1939-42, on an elongated half-octagonal plan. Now disused. Flat reinforced concrete roof. Lichen-spotted rendered mass- or reinforced concrete block walls. Square-headed window openings with no fittings surviving. Set on headland.

A lookout post [""LOP 17""] erected during ""The Emergency"" (1939-46) to a standardised design signed by William Henry Howard Cooke (1881-1977) of the Office of Public Works (established 1831) representing an important component of the mid twentieth-century built heritage of County Waterford (cf. 22904010).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 22902610

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