towers historical around south dublin

A three storey 16th century granite tower with a vault over the second. It has parapet machicolations.
Together with the reconstructed Dalkey Tower Hall, further along on the opposite side of the street, it is the last of the seven castellated buildings which once stood in the old walled town of Dalkey....

Sandycove's main tourist attraction, the Martello Tower where James Joyce spent a week in 1904, with his friend, Oliver St John Gogarty, an experience which gave him the opening chapter of Ulysses. The 15-minute walk to the tower will take you along the seafront with its terraces of victorian and more modern houses, and past a small park, where lines from Ulysses are inscribed in a granite boulder....