Scoil: Presentation Brothers' School, Cóbh

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An Cóbh, Co. Chorcaí
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Bailiúchán na Scol, Imleabhar 0385, Leathanach 366

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Bailiúchán na Scol, Imleabhar 0385, Leathanach 366

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  1. XML Scoil: Presentation Brothers' School, Cóbh
  2. XML Leathanach 366
  3. XML “Rocky Island”

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  1. Rocky Island is situated to the southern side of Haulbowline. It had once the second largest magazine in the world at one time. Gibralter was then the largest. The island is about 800 by 300. The magazine had eight chambers each eighty feet long by forty feet wide and hewn out of the solid rock. Its walls and roof are 9' thick and it is floored with massive oak blocks. There is not a single nail of iron or steel in the whole concern. Locks, keys, fastenings of all sorts even the hinges on the doors and windows are either copper or bronze. It has double oak doors about four feet apart and six inches thick. There are two sets of chambers separated by a grass plot about 14' wide. In the centre of the island steps are hewn from the living rock to a height of about 20 feet. At the top of these steps is a level piece of ground at present overgrown with weeds and grass. On this platform there stood a lookout tower.
    Entirely encircling the magazine is a [?band] of copper 6'' wide and 1/2'' thick. It was placed there as a precaution against lightning. Running through one corner of the Rocky Island is a vein of red and pink marble. The waters adjoining the island are noted for the excellence of their
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