The Fort at Kinsale from General Folliot’s summer house
View of fort on a headland beyond two bays and a strip of land with dwelling houses. Other features include a tower with a conical roof, a tall ship and a small masted boat. Hills behind the fort. <br><br>Source:<br> Archaeological Survey of Ireland, at http://webgis.archaeology.ie/historicenvironment/, record no. CO125-007----. Accessed 9.4.2018. <br>John Thuillier, <em>Kinsale harbour: a history</em> (Cork: The Collins Press, 2014).
Image Details
| Genre | Landscape |
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| Technique | Wash drawings |
| Subject(s) | Cities and towns, Forts and fortifications, Marines |
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| Keyword(s) | Bays (Bodies of water), Boats, Harbours, Houses, Mountains, Seas, Ships, Towers |
| Colour | Coloured |
| Dimensions | 31.5 cm x 21.5 cm |
| Published / created | 1774 |
Bibliographical Details
| Travel Account | Journal and sketchbook, Ireland (1774) |
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| Print or manuscript | Manuscript |
| Location of image in copy | PD/435 [image 20] |
| Source copy | Formerly in Cornwall Record Office. PD/470-473, PD/435 |
| Permalink | https://ttce.universityofgalway.ie/irelandillustrated/view/image/ii_image_1523136368 |
| Rights | Now in private collection. No reproduction authorized. |
Related text from travel account
| From hence [Bandon] is a charming ride upon the banks of the River, which winds here in a beautiful manner, to Kinsale. Inishannon is a very pretty village upon the road & a little beyond it is an old castle that has a very romantic situation. Kinsale has a very pleasant healthy situation, in some parts is not ill built, but is shabby & ruinous in others. The Bay winds round a peninsula, on which are the remains of an old fort – A new one has since been erected on the opposite shore which serves as quarters for a regiment of soldiers but would be of little protection for the town in case of a war. The Bay is a very fine area. It might have all the advantages of commerce particularly to the West Indies If the cruel Policy of the Mother country did not restrain them in this respect. The Spaniards were in possession of this town above three years and from the appearance of some of the old houses here seem to have left them marks of their having been there. In Q. Elizabeths time they were expelled from it by L<sup>d</sup> Mountjoy – In order to see the Bay to more advantage we took a boat and went to Charles’s fort & from there to a summer house built by Gen. Folliot which commands a fine prospect. [PD/472, unpaginated] |