Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Martello tower
Killiney, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killiney
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Martello Tower
- Latest-edition OS map
- Martello Tower
- Coordinates
- 53.25639, -6.11825
- SMR number
- DU026-011----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Tara Hill, Killiney Martello Tower and Battery No. 7 (Kerrigan 1995, 170). According to Kerrigan (1995, 168) construction of the Dublin area Martello Towers and their batteries commenced in 1804 under the supervision of Colonel Benjamin Fisher of the Royal Engineers and by December 1805 all towers were armed and complete. Kerrigan (ibid., 170) recorded that; ‘The towers and batteries south of Dublin are numbered from 1 to 16, but there were only fourteen towers, as at two locations there were batteries only, while several of the towers were close to adjacent batteries’. Located east of Killiney Hill Road (R119) and is located in an urbanised area of housing. This site dates to post 1700.
Tower No. 7 described by Kerrigan (1995, 173) as; 'just under a quarter of a mile inland are tower and battery no. 7, some 250 feet above sea level. Here the tower and battery survive, the three gun battery (of 24-pounders) linked to the tower on the south-east side. Built against the tower and at the rear of the battery is a single-storey structure, covered until recently by a lean-to slate roof. There was access from this building to
the first-floor level of the tower by means of a vertical recess within the wall thickness of the tower'.
See attached plans of Tara Hill, Killiney Martello Tower No. 9 courtesy of the Irish Military Archives - Archival Reference Code: IE/MA/MPD/AD119455-009 & IE/MA/MPD/AD119455-010
See attached Taylor's Map showing the location of the Martello Tower and Battery (DU026-012----).
Taylor, J. 1816 Taylor's map of the environs of Dublin: extending 10 to 14 miles from the castle, by actual survey, on a scale of 2 inches to one mile.
Photo ©Irlpol https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Killiney_Martello_No7.jpg
DU026-011----_04 Patrick Healy Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/1995, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, County Library, Town Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 23 January 2023
References
Kerrigan P.M. 1995 Castles and fortifications in Ireland 1485-1945. Cork. The Collins Press.
Turner, K. 1983 If you seek monuments: a guide to the antiquities of the barony of Rathdown. Rathmichael Historical Society.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.