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About Neds Point Fort
Neds Point Fort is one in all numerous Napoleonic batteries constructed alongside the shorelines of Lough Swilly in county Donegal, to guard the north west of Ireland. It changed into a part of a scheme to toughen Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle towards French Invasion throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It is located near the as soon as crucial naval town of Buncrana and its modern-day shape largely dates to works completed between 1812 and 1813.
It comprised a square blockhouse mounting two guns and an assisting battery mounting 4 guns. The castle is surrounded by way of a ditch. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars the defenses had been ignored and no longer up to date. In 1874 the castle was armed with 25.5-inch Howitzers inside the tower and four 24 Pounder easy bore weapons inside the foremost battery. It turned into revamped in the 1890s as a battery with two 6-inch weapons on hydro pneumatic mountings. This protected a primary underground magazine complicated and the height of the tower or blockhouse changed into also reduced.
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