The Magazine Fort is located on St. Thomas Hill within Dublin’s Phoenix Park, just off the Military Road near the Islandbridge gate entrance. Construction on the fort began in 1734 and was completed in 1736. It was extended later in 1801. The building’s purpose was to store gun powder and ammunition for British Government Forces. When the Duke of Dorset ordered that an ammunition store be built for Dublin the former site of the Phoenix Lodge was chosen. At the time of the fort’s building, many Dubliners were living in…
