Modern gun battery.


A gun battery was constructed near Lough House in 1797, as part of a wider response to the threat posed by foreign privateers to the Island's coastline and its shipping.


The battery appears to have been designed as one of several placed around Douglas Bay to provide interlocking fields of fire from one end of the bay to the other.


The Lough House battery was designed to accommodate two guns, which are present in a subsequent inventory of 1803, although the platform on which they were stood was deemed unserviceable.


Curphey places the Lough House battery approximately 750m north of Ballaquayle stream. There is no sign of earthworks in the area now, which is now occupied by a modern hotel.