Spike Island | As described in John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)

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))

Linked entities:
Administrative units:	Cork County
Place:	Spike Island

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