Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Spike Island

Spike Island, 1 mile S. of Queenstown, S. co. Cork, in Cork Harbour; has Fort Westmorland battery (1791), barracks (1806), and a convict depot (1847).


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Administrative units: Cork IrlC
Place: Spike Island

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