Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Battery
Kylebeg Or Banagher, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kylebeg Or Banagher
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Elizas Fort or Sod Battery
- Latest-edition OS map
- Fort Eliza
- Coordinates
- 53.19058, -7.99614
- SMR number
- OF021-002----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
19th century artillery fortification along the River Shannon, depicted as Fort Eliza on the current edition of the OS 6-inch map.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Bastioned fortunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Town defencesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.