Artillery emplacements
Artillery emplacements is a ruins in County Sligo, Connacht. Artillery emplacements is situated nearby to the building Sligo Bay Lifeboat Station, as well as near Oyster Island Lighthouse.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Oyster Island Lighthouse and Coney Island.
Oyster Island Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Oyster Island Lighthouse is situated 1 km south of Artillery emplacements.
Coney Island
Island
Coney Island or Inishmulclohy is an island in Sligo Bay, Ireland. It lies across the mouth of Sligo Harbour, between Rosses Point and the Coolera Peninsula, and can be reached from the latter via a tidal causeway.
Sligo Bay Lifeboat Station
Building
Photo: Willie Duffin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sligo Bay Lifeboat Station is located at Rosses Point, a small village at the head of the Rosses Point Peninsula, at the entrance to Sligo Bay, approximately 7.5 kilometres north-west of the town of Sligo in County Sligo, Ireland. Sligo Bay Lifeboat Station is situated 590 metres south of Artillery emplacements.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rosses Point and Carney.
Rosses Point
Photo: Gerry Gallagher, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rosses Point is a village in County Sligo with a population of 900 in 2022. It's a fishing village at the outflow of Sligo Bay, and "Ross" means the peninsula between that and Drumcliffe Bay further north.
Carney
Locality
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carney is a village on the Maugherow Peninsula in County Sligo, Ireland. It is 8 km north of Sligo town. Carney is situated 4½ km northeast of Artillery emplacements.
Strandhill
Photo: T0mt0m42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Strandhill is a village in County Sligo, 9 km west of Sligo town on the south shore of the bay, with a population in 2022 of 2000. Its name is apt: a great expanse of strand before it and a steep hill behind, the scarp of Knocknarea.
Artillery emplacements
- Type: Ruins
- Category: historic site
- Location: County Sligo, Connacht, Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.30986° or 54° 18′ 36″ northLongitude
-8.57148° or 8° 34′ 17″ westOpen location code
9C6H8C5H+WCOpenStreetMap ID
way 223775656OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruins
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