Star Fort , Salute battery and National Shell Factory

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    • January 24, 2002 at 4:19 pm #705189
      pob
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      Can anyone tell me where I can find historical information,photos or map/plans of the National Shell Factory which was situated in Parkgate Street beside King’s Bridge and is now I belive the premises of Hickey’s Fabrics. Also I am looking for the same information about the Star Fort and Salute Battery which were situated in the Phoenix park roughly where the Citadel Pond and Wellington monument are now located.
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      Peter O’Brien

    • January 27, 2002 at 10:27 pm #718020
      MG
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      National Shell Factory as in arnaments?

    • January 28, 2002 at 12:00 pm #718021
      pob
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      Hi, thansk for your interest. Yes, I got info from Irish Military Archives showing lands held by the British War Department and it was listed as “National Shell and Ammunition factory, Dublin”. I also saw from various maps of Dublin in the National Library that it was an iron works prior to this and the War Department turned it into a shell factory for the duration of the Boer War and again at the outbreak of WW1. As far as I know it was handed over to the Provisional Government as a going concern but the New Irish army had no intention of producing munitions there and sold it to Cahills printers sometime around 1923-24
      Can you shed any further light on this?
      POB

    • January 28, 2002 at 12:05 pm #718022
      Paul Clerkin
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      That explains the Military style gate…. http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/dublin/parkgate_arbourhill/hickeys.html

      And the lookout over the bridge on the river side

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