Banagher Martello Tower
Also known as Esker Martello Tower
Banagher
About Banagher Martello Tower
The National Inventory rates Banagher Martello Tower Regional, one of 31 in Banagher. Its record dates Banagher Martello Tower to 1800–1810. 7 other places on the record stand within 400 m.
Strategically sited to protect the river crossing at Banagher, this solidly built Martello tower is part of an important group of buildings constructed in Britain and Ireland in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to protect against a threatened Napoleonic invasion.
From the National Inventory’s appraisal, record 30410906 · 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 · 30410906↗Regional is the National Inventory’s rating for a building of significance in its region; most rated buildings carry it.
Make it a walk: 5 historic places in about 15 minutes
Banagher · about 700 m on foot, as the crow flies
- 1Banagher Martello TowerStart here
- 2
Banagher BridgeNational rating (NIAH) · 200 m on - 3Bridge Malt houseRegional rating (NIAH) · 100 m on
- 4Banagher Billiard HallRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
- 5Crank HouseRegional rating (NIAH) · 200 m on
2 within 150 m
Every place on the record within this distance; each opens its own page.
Like it: recorded buildings near Banagher
4 like it are within 40 km, each with a photo. Closest of all: Fort Eliza, Banagher, 500 m away. 1 of the 4 are in Banagher itself.
Questions about Banagher Martello Tower
Is Banagher Martello Tower on the National Inventory?
Yes: rated Regional (record 30410906).
Can you visit Banagher Martello Tower?
It can be seen from the street; whether you can go inside depends on its owner.
When was Banagher Martello Tower built?
Its National Inventory record dates it to 1800–1810.
Is Banagher Martello Tower 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) · Photos: Wikimedia Commons, including the National Library of Ireland’s collections, each credited with its licence and copied to our own server · Wikidata (CC0) for other names and articles. Under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).
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