North Atlantic Skyline, despatches from the west of Ireland

Finvarra, The Burren, Co. Clare

The Martello tower at Finnavara Point. The doorway is over two meters up the wall, and though there is a knotted rope to haul oneself up, I wasn't tempted. Martello towers were built along the coast as defence emplacements in the expectation of a invasion by Napoleon.

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