Survey Data
Reg No
15618025
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social
Original Use
Martello tower
Date
1810 - 1820
Coordinates
273240, 108507
Date Recorded
03/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding single-bay two-stage Martello tower, built 1815, on a circular plan. "Dismantled", 1837. Attacked, 1868. Now disused. One of a pair. Roof not visible behind parapet. Tuck pointed granite ashlar battered walls on cut-granite chamfered plinth with cut-granite coping to parapet. Shallow camber-headed window openings with granite ashlar voussoirs centred on cut-granite keystones framing cast-iron bars. Set in relandscaped grounds.
Appraisal
A Martello tower erected as one of a pair (including 15704413) representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of south County Wexford with the architectural value of the composition, one adhering to a standard prototype seen also at Bartra (1804), County Dublin; and Bray (1804-5), County Wicklow, confirmed by such attributes as the compact circular plan form; the construction in a honey-toned granite demonstrating good quality workmanship; the gently tapering silhouette; and the monolithic parapeted "terraplain".