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A subsequent reassessment of the threat of invasion led to the building of a series of fortifications guarding the different approaches and landing points within the lough which were completed between 1800 and 1820.
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were built around 1804 to defend the approaches to Derry. The six on the lough cost €1,800 each, were armed with smoothbore cannon, firing round shot and were completed in six months. Immediately prior to
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was mined at the mouth of Lough Swilly, Ireland in 1917. It sank in forty metres of water with the loss of 354 men. From 1917 to 1921 royal navy divers salvaged over 3,000 gold bars
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Atlantic convoys. During this period a boom was placed across the lough between Macamish Point and Ned's Point, supported by a number of
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was shipwrecked in Lough Swilly. There were no survivors out of the estimated 253 aboard, with approximately 200 bodies washed up on shore.
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Suileach Multi-eyed, eponymous sea-monster of Lough Swilly (Co. Donegal) thought to have been dispatched by St Colum Cille (521–95)
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A Martello tower that sits on the banks of Lough Swilly.
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fortifications along its shores, as well as a number of
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268:The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places
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329:to Letterkenny. These reclaimed lands are now
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914:"The Role of Lough Swilly in WW1"
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593:Pierce 2011
531:Grand Fleet
512:Ned's Point
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308:Letterkenny
256:sea monster
177:Lough Foyle
152:Settlements
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1120:Categories
1079:. Gosport.
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861:Friel 2015
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572:References
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432:Rathmullan
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196:Loch Súilí
106:55°08′17″N
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516:Inch Fort
452:HMS
401:Stone Age
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