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Fort Culmore, at the Mouth of the River Foyle near Londonderry

John Noah Gosset (c.1790–1870)

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Fort Culmore, at the Mouth of the River Foyle near Londonderry

Image credit: Derry City and Strabane District Council

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The village of Culmore at the narrows where the river enters Lough Foyle, with the mountains of Inishowen beyond. Culmore Fort, a small Irish tower-house castle erected around the sixteenth century by the O'Doherty lords of Inishowen. At the end of that century it came into English hands and was refortified. It continued as a military installation into the beginning of the eighteenth century.

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Derry

Title

Fort Culmore, at the Mouth of the River Foyle near Londonderry

Date

c.1841–1846

Medium

watercolour on paper

Accession number

ART/JNG/31

Acquisition method

purchased from a private gallery London, 1993; acquired from a friend of the Gosset family

Work type

Watercolour

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John Noah Gosset

c.1790–1870

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