Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Martello tower
Ardagh (bear By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardagh (bear By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Martello Tower (1842)
- Coordinates
- 51.63400, -9.84761
- SMR number
- CO128-014----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On Bear Island. Gently circular tapering tower (H c. 7m); surrounded by shallow moat and outer enclosure. Barrel-shaped internal ground plan (6.09m E-W; 6.05m N-S; wall thickness 2.4m); vaulted roof (long axis E-W) over 1st floor level. Door on 1st floor to E with machicolation overhead. Spiral stairs on 1st floor providing access up to roof level. Splayed ground- and 1st-floor windows to NW and SW. Paved roof with mural chamber in parapet wall; wall-walk with gun-carriage track. Just S of tower are remains of rectangular structure. Ordnance ground c. 0.31m to NE of tower with remains of battery (CO128-015---).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
- Batteryunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Anomalous stone groupunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.