# Macamish Fort

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{{short description|Martello tower in County Donegal, Ireland}}
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|caption= Macamish Fort in 2008
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'''Macamish Fort''' is one of several [Napoleonic](/source/Napoleonic) batteries built along the shores of [Lough Swilly](/source/Lough_Swilly) in [county Donegal](/source/county_Donegal), to defend the north west of [Ireland](/source/Ireland). It was part of a scheme to fortify Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle against French Invasion during the Revolutionary and [Napoleonic War](/source/Napoleonic_War)s and was completed between 1812 and 1813. It was built on a rock outcrop overlooking the lough.<ref>Stevenson, Ian, 1995. ''Two Irish Loughs'', Redan: Journal of the Palmerston Forts Society, Gosport, pp11-28</ref> It comprises a [Martello Tower](/source/Martello_Tower) mounting a single gun and battery mounting three guns. The fort was originally entered by a drawbridge.

After the end of the Napoleonic Wars the defences were neglected and not updated. By the 1860s the Fort was obsolete and disarmed.

The fort remains substantially intact, and is now in use as a private residence.

==References==
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==Publications==
* {{cite book|title=Castles and fortifications in Ireland, 1485&ndash;1945 | isbn=1898256128 |author=Paul M. Kerrigan |date=1995 |publisher=Collins Press}}
* Col K W Maurice-Jones, 1959. The History of Coast Artillery in the British Army, Royal Artillery Institution, London

Category:Forts in the Republic of Ireland
Category:Buildings and structures in County Donegal
Category:Towers in the Republic of Ireland
Category:Martello towers

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