Survey Data
Reg No
20406805
Rating
National
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Previous Name
Kilkerin Battery
Original Use
Battery
Date
1790 - 1830
Coordinates
109416, 150652
Date Recorded
05/09/1997
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding six-bay single-storey over basement fort, built c. 1810, surrounded by moat. Now disused. Inclined cut-limestone parapet with brick chimneystack to roof. Cut-limestone walls with base batter. Timber matchboard door set in segmental-arched recess to accommodate retractable drawbridge. Gun loops and square-headed windows with cut-stone dressings. Detached four-bay single-storey magazine with moat and base batter to site. Snecked stone retaining walls to glacis extending to shore. Cut-stone gate piers set in rubble stone walls.