Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Martello tower
Aughinish (Burren By.), County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Aughinish (Burren By.)
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Battery
- Latest-edition OS map
- Martello Tower
- Coordinates
- 53.16852, -9.06676
- SMR number
- CL003A001----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Listed as 'Martello Tower' on the RMP (1996). Situated on a narrow spit of land at the most northerly point of Aughinish Island with a tidal lagoon defending it along the S. A well-built, roughly oval Martello tower (dims. c. 20m NE-SW; c. 17m NW-SE), built c. 1810, with a doorway 2.4m above ground level on the SE side and windows at first-floor level at WNW, N and NE. The tower is in use as a house with a flat glass roof, cut stone chimney stacks and an external metal stairs. Timber casement windows and a matchboard door have replaced the originals.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 12 January 2016
Nearby in the register
- Middenunder 1 mi
- Clochanunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.