Survey Data
Reg No
20851167
Rating
National
Categories of Special Interest
Archaeological, Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Town/city walls
Date
1710 - 1750
Coordinates
163654, 50655
Date Recorded
03/03/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding town walls, commenced c.1350, latest additions c.1730. Having various subsequent repairs and extensions. Rubble stone wall built to courses, bonded with lime mortar. Wall footing visible to base of north elevation.
Appraisal
Believed to have been commenced during the mid-thirteenth century, the town walls were repaired in the mid-fourteenth century, damaged in the battle of Kinsale in 1601, largely destroyed in the siege of 1690 and subjected to some repairs in the eighteenth century. Lewis, in his Topographical Directory of 1837 notes that 'three of the gates were remaining till near the close of the last century; Nicholas gate was removed in 1794, Friars gate in 1796, and Cork gate in 1805'. This section of wall is one of the few surviving remnants of this historic defensive feature.