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Hexagonal pillbox with 2 machine gun embrasures at front left and right. Both embrasures are stepped on the outside and have a smaller cast iron embrasure designed to support the Turnbull Mount for the Vickers .303 MG. There are no shutters. On the inside of each embrasure is a stepped machine gun platform in concrete, to the right of which is a square recess, probably for ammunition or water coolant. Access to the pillbox is by 4 concrete steps at right angles to a full sized doorway at the rear covered by a blast wall. There is no sign of a fixed door. The pillbox is partially inset into the side of a steep hill below the churchyard wall and has a commanding view over the houses in front onto the B10 road where it crosses the railway and canal. Access to the pillbox is via the churchyard itself.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/07/06)
| Type of site | PILLBOX |
|---|---|
| Location | St. Matthew's Church, Scarva. |
| Area |
Scarva, Banridge, Northern Ireland |
| Grid reference |
J 0646 4366
(Scale: 1:20000
)
|
| Period | WW2 |
| Condition | Good |
| Materials | Concrete |
| Recorder | Knapper, S.J. |
| Defence grouping |
Scarva centre of resistance - Defences of Scarva developed as a centre of resistance on Northern Ireland District stop line B - Lough Neagh to Carlingford Lough. [Source: 53 Division Defence Scheme No 2, 8th August 1940 - PRO WO 166/655]. Northern Ireland District Stop Line B: Lough Neagh to Carlingford Lough - The line runs along the River Bann and Newry River from Lough Neagh to Carlingford Lough. |
| Attached Sheets | (2) - sketch plans (1 DIGITISED) |
| Photographs |
(2) - external views |
| DOB site reference: | S0010031 |
| Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1995/07/06 |
