Dalkey Island
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Dalkey Island is an island for which the nearby village of Dalkey is named. It is an uninhabited island located in the county of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, about 16 kilometres south of Dublin and 3 km so
Dalkey Island viewed from Killiney Hill
Wild goats at Dalkey Island
Arrowhead found Dalkey island 2012
Bottlenose dolphin playing with a paddle boarder in front of Dalkey Island
Martello tower
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A Martello tower is a type of small defensive fort that was built across the British Empire during the 19th century, from the time of the French Revolutionary Wars onwards. Most were for coastal defen
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…Neolithic period. The remains of field systems, a church dedicated to Saint Benedict, a cairn burial, a gun battery which had three 24 pound guns and the Martello tower still exist. There are two holy wells, one on the western shoreline is known locally as the "Scurvy Well" and is located within a surrounding stone…
Prince of Wales Tower – oldest Martello tower in North America (1796), Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
The resistance of the Torra di Mortella to the British in 1794 inspired Martello towers
A view of Corsica and a Martello tower, 1788 painting "A cutter and a man of war off Corsica" by Nicholas Pocock
A Martello tower on the plains of Abraham in Quebec City (Quebec, Canada), at the top of Cap Diamant overlooking the Saint Lawrence River.