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Battery

Scattery Island, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Battery, Scattery Island, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Scattery Island
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Battery
Latest-edition OS map
Battery (Disused)
Coordinates
52.60557, -9.51871
SMR number
CL067-024015-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

One of several batteries erected in the Shannon Estuary in the early 19th century to protect shipping. This battery is situated at the S extremity of Scattery Island on a slight rise and is in good condition. The position is naturally defensive, but there are two walls c. 20m apart at the base of a slope to the N that may have provided a defence for infantry. The battery is of the same layout as most of the others having a semicircular or D-shaped plan surrounded by a dry moat with six guns arranged around the perimeter. The rear of the battery was protected by a rectangular blockhouse built in the moat at the centre of the landward side. Kerrigan (1995, 208) mentions that ‘in 1811 Scattery was noted as having eight guns, perhaps in a temporary battery that preceded the present structure.’ (Kerrigan 1995, 206, 208) This is a national monument in state care, no. 10.

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 19 September 2016

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1971).

References

Kerrigan P.M. 1995 Castles and fortifications in Ireland 1485-1945. Cork. The Collins Press.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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