Survey Data
Reg No
15618011
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Building misc
Date
1858 - 1863
Coordinates
272658, 108135
Date Recorded
21/10/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Pair of cannon or gun emplacements, extant 1863, on semi-circular plans. Now disused. Set in shared grounds.
Appraisal
A pair of cannon or gun emplacements not only contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Duncannon Fort complex, but also illustrating the partial refortification of the complex 'whereby it has been rendered sufficiently strong to admit 68-pounder Armstrong guns…mounted on travelling platforms [and] capable of throwing shot and shell to the entrance of Waterford Harbour' (Lacy 1863, 516-7).