- Address
- Whiddy Island
- Type
- Battery
- NIAH reg. no.
- 20911801
Middle Battery
Whiddy Island, Bantry
About Middle Battery
Middle Battery is one of 78 buildings in Bantry the National Inventory rates Regional. Its record dates Middle Battery to 1800–1805.
As a consequence of the 1796 attempted French invasion of Ireland, the British Government built three batteries on Whiddy Island.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 20911801 · CC BY 4.0 · Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
NIAHRead its National Inventory recordThe full description and appraisal, the survey photo and the map · 20911801↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Finding Middle Battery
Bantry
Questions about Middle Battery
Is Middle Battery on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 20911801).
Can you visit Middle Battery?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Middle Battery built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1800–1805.
Is Middle Battery protected?
Being on the National Inventory or the Sites and Monuments Record is a record, not protection by itself: buildings are protected by their council’s Record of Protected Structures, which each council keeps and no national open list gathers, so this page can’t say which are on it.
Source: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage and Sites and Monuments Record, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata (CC0).
Sources: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (buildingsofireland.ie). Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).