Martello tower
List of Martello towers outside Great Britain
Table:
Country

Location

Tower name

Built

Current status

Australia

Sydney

Fort Denison

1856

Museum, harbour light station.

Barbuda

Near Codrington

River Fort Martello Tower

Bermuda

Ferry Reach

1823–1828

Can be visited

British Virgin Islands

Tortola

Fort Recovery

Private (hotel)

Canada

Point Pleasant Park, Nova Scotia

Prince of Wales's Tower

1796

Open to public

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Duke of York's Tower

c.1798

Lower levels still exist. Site partially boarded off, can be visited

Halifax, Nova Scotia

Duke of Clarence's Tower

c.1798

Demolished prior to 1900

Kingston, Ontario

Fort Frederick

1846/7

Museum

Kingston, Ontario

Murney Tower

1846

Museum

Kingston, Ontario

Shoal Tower

1846

Closed to Public

Kingston, Ontario

Cathcart Tower

1846

Closed to Public

Quebec City, Quebec

Tower #1

1808–1812

Museum

Quebec City, Quebec

Tower #2

1808–1812

Open for group activities through National Battlefields Commission

Quebec City, Quebec

Tower #3

1808–1812

Destroyed

Quebec City, Quebec

Tower #4

1808–1812

Closed to Public

Saint John, New Brunswick

Carleton Martello Tower

1815

Museum

Croatia

Korčula

Forteca Korčula (Fort Wellington)

1813

Deserted, accessible to hikers

India

Arnala Island

Hanumant Bastion

ca. 1530s[51]

Deserted and Dilapidated.

Ireland

Achill Island

Gabhla Fhranca

ca. 1803–1815

Partially collapsed but accessible to hikers

Aughinish

Aughinish Tower

Private residence

Banagher

Meelick Tower

Private residence

Balbriggan

North No. 12

c. 1805 [52]

Extant

Skerries, Red Island

North No. 11

c. 1805 [52]

Extant

Skerries, Shenick Island

North No. 10

c. 1805 [52]

Extant

Drumanagh

North No. 9

c. 1805 [52]

Extant

Rush

North No. 8

c. 1805 [52]

Extant

Portrane, Tower Bay

North No. 7

Private residence

Donabate, Balcarrick

North No. 6

c. 1805 [52]

Extant

Malahide, Robswall

North No. 5, Hicks Tower[52]

c. 1805 [52]

Private residence

Portmarnock, Carrickhill

North No. 4

c. 1805 [52]

Private residence

Ireland's Eye

North No. 3

c. 1805 [52]

Extant

Howth, Harbour Rd.

North No. 2

c. 1805 [52]

Museum & radio station

Sutton South

North No. 1

c. 1805 [52]

Private residence

Sandymount

South No. 16

Extant

Williamstown

South No. 15

Extant

Seapoint

South No. 14

Restored. Exhibition on the history of Dublin’s Martello Towers. Guided tours during the summer months

Kingstown Harbour, West Pier

South No. 13

Demolished, c. 1830s, during construction/extension of Dublin & Kingstown Railway

Dún Laoghaire, site of present-day Peoples Park

South No. 12

Sandycove

South No. 11, James Joyce's Martello tower

James Joyce Tower and Museum

Bulloch Harbour

South No. 10

c. 1804

Private residence

Dalkey Island

South No. 9

Extant

Killiney, south end of Strathmore Road

South No. 8

Site of battery, not tower

Killiney, Tara Hill

South No. 7

Fully restored

Killiney, beach

South No. 6, Enoch's Tower

Private residence

Shanganagh

South No. 5

Site of battery, not tower

Shanganagh, Mahera Point

South No. 4

Lost to coastal erosion

Bray, Corke Abbey

South No. 3

Lost to coastal erosion

Bray harbour

South No. 2

1804-5 [53]

Private residence

Bray beach

South No. 1

Demolished 1884, when Esplanade constructed [53]

Ilnacullin

Tower and gardens open to public (access by boat from Glengarriff)

Bere Island, Cloughland

Bere Island, Ardagh

Finavarra

Finavarra Tower

1816

Open to public

Ringaskiddy, Cork Harbour

Haulbowline Island, Cork Harbour

Museum, owned by Irish Navy

Fota Island, Cork Harbour

Monning Tower

Rossleague, Cobh

Belvelly, Cobh

Private residence

Lough Swilly

Macamish Tower

Lough Foyle

Greencastle Tower

Extended to a Fort completed in 1812. Restaurant

Lough Foyle

Magilligan Tower

Restored

Loughshinny

Rathmullan

Ros a' Mhíl

Italy

Messina

Cariddi's Tower or Tower of Ganzirri

1810?

Closed to public

Mazzone's Tower or Tower of British Fort

1810?

Priolo Gargallo

Torre di Magnisi

1810?

Can be visited

Syracuse

Castello Maniace

1810?

Open to public

Jamaica

Kingston

Fort Nugent

1808–11?

Liberia

Monrovia

Fort Stockton

1822

since 1822, August under construction, later named as coast battery Fort Hill[54]

Malta

Madliena, Pembroke

Madliena Tower

1658

Intact, recently restored

Mauritius

Tamarin, Mauritius

1832–35

L'Harmonie

1832–35

abandoned but no fences, entrance still on second story

La Preneuse

1832–35

Museum

Cunningham's Tower

1832–35

Disappeared between 1880 and 1902.

Fort Victoria

1832–35

Last mentioned 1880

Sierra Leone

Freetown

Tower Hill Martello Tower

1805

Part of Parliament Buildings

South Africa

Fort Beaufort

1839–46

Simon's Town

1795/6

At the Naval Base. Houses a small museum.

Cape Town

Craig's Tower

1795/6

Demolished late 19th century

Sri Lanka

Hambantota

1801–03

Trinidad & Tobago

Port of Spain

Fort Picton

1801

Abandoned by 1810.

United States

Lake Borgne, Louisiana

Tower Dupre

1830?

Hexagonal; originally built on shore, 150 ft (46 m) from water, near Bayou Dupre's entrance to Lake Borgne; private fishing camp; threatened by subsidence and tidal erosion[55]

Charleston, South Carolina

Key West, Florida

East tower is a museum; West tower converted to a botanical garden; both open to the public

New York Harbor

Destroyed

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Walbach Tower

1814

Incorporated into Fort Constitution; Ruined[56]

Tybee Island, Georgia

1815

Destroyed

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