Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Battery
Killiney, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killiney
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25639, -6.11825
- SMR number
- DU026-011001-
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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
Martello Tower (DU026-011----) and battery No. 7 (Kerrigan 1995, 170). Located east of Killiney Hill Road (R119) and is located in an urbanised area of housing. 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.
Tower and battery 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'
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 23 January 2023
References
Kerrigan P.M. 1995 Castles and fortifications in Ireland 1485-1945. Cork. The Collins Press.
Nearby in the register
- Martello towerunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.