Coastal Battery

Today Ceridwen & I walked with Casey to a remnant of World War 2 that I've visited several times before. It's on the cliff overlooking the Irish Sea, a couple miles East of Fishguard Harbor. It was a little armed observation post, ready to fire upon enemy vessels and spot incoming aircraft.

In the photo at left, see the small reddish structure facing the sea, just below the white buildings (a modern caravan park that was the larger part of the defense installation during the war). That red structure is the gun box.

At top right, we're on the site looking back toward the harbor. See the gun box again, and the smaller magazine (ammunition shed) just before it. Both have turfed roofs, which is how they were originally, for camouflage.

At lower left, see the observation post higher up, and the magazine in the foreground, as they look from the gun box.

The Germans did not attack the coast this far West, but the area was in a state of high alert throughout the war. A field adjacent to this site was a mine field, in fact.

HERE is a bit more about the site, which I believe contains some inaccuracies, on a local tourism website.