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Martello tower

Rosslarefort, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Martello tower, Rosslarefort, County Wexford, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Rosslarefort
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Site of Tower
Latest-edition OS map
Tower (Site of)
Coordinates
52.33359, -6.36757
SMR number
WX038-007002-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1811 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A martello tower was built in 1805-06 at a cost of £2,300 (Kerrigan 1995, 182-3), which is probably the site of a a rectangular tower (dims c. 18m E-W; c. 13m N-S) N of the fort (WX038-007001-) marked on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map at the N end the sand-spit. The tower is mentioned in a survey (Shaw-Mason 1819, vol. 3, 403) that also enumerates 11 houses around the Square and two outside it. The narrow part of the sand-bar (L c. 3km) has now been washed away, and the fort is inaccessible, but a few walls are still to be seen above the water.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 18 January, 2012

References

Kerrigan P.M. 1995 Castles and fortifications in Ireland 1485-1945. Cork. The Collins Press.

Shaw-Mason, W. 1814-19 Statistical account or parochial survey of Ireland, 3 vols. Dublin. J. Cumming.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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