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| Castle | Castle | Mr Morton, Gunner | on sheet | A fortification on the summit of a rocky | ||
| Castle | Mr Boak, Officer of Coastguard | 12.7 | eminence – 108 feet in height, situated at | |||
| Castle | Mr Wilson, Harbour Master | the south end of the Island, and having | ||||
| a steep road leading to its entrance on the | ||||||
| south side; previous to the invention of cannon | ||||||
| it must have been almost impregnable, as | ||||||
| from the great natural advantages of its | ||||||
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| -ed in getting sufficiently close to it to do | ||||||
| damage to its walls. | ||||||
| There is scarcely anything historically interesting | ||||||
| in connection with it excepting its capture | ||||||
| by Launcelot and Mark Errington in 1745 | ||||||
| for the "Pretender", and its erection is sup- | ||||||
| posed to be coeval with the foundation | ||||||
| of the Monastery in its vicinity and served | ||||||
| the monks as a refuge in cases of invasion. | ||||||
| There are three batteries, the "Queen’s" on the | ||||||
| north, the "Upper" one with flagstaff, on the west, | ||||||
| and "Lower" one on the east, preparations are | ||||||
| now being made for mounting two 68 pounder one 10 inch | ||||||
| swivel gun on the "Upper and Lower" batteries and there is bombproof accommodation for 40 men | ||||||
| It is now occupied as a coastguard station. | ||||||
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