Post Medieval gun battery.


A coastal battery or fort was built at Ronaldsway in 1695 during the French Wars. In 1715, its stonework was renovated and the guns remounted.


A small-scale exploratory excavation on the southern tip of the Ronaldsway peninsula revealed a masonry revetment behind an artificial embankment, the obtusely angled plan reminiscent of the early 19th century batteries at Douglas Head and Peel Castle. The excavator assumed that the layout revealed by excavation must therefore have been a further renovation postdating that undertaken in the first half of the 18th century.


The site is now heavily overgrown, and any surface indications difficult to see.