Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Battery
Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bray
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.20682, -6.10171
- SMR number
- WI004-002001-
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 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Martello Tower and Battery No. 2 (Kerrigan 1995, 170). Martello Tower (WI004-002----) described by the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage [NIAH] as follows: 'Detached multiple-bay two-storey former Martello tower, built 1804-5, and now in use as a private residence. The building is constructed in coursed granite. The circular tower comprises of a high battered granite wall with small plain defensive openings. It is now surmounted by a glazed "drum" with a glazed conical roof. The tower overlooks the shoreline and site on a bailey-like artificial mound which is contained by a battered stone wall.' http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WI®no=16301084# [Accessed 29 January 2013]
See attached Taylor's Map showing the location of the Battery and the Martello Tower (WI004-002----)
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.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 23 January 2023
Nearby in the register
- Martello towerunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Linear earthworkunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.