Three-bed Martello to fetch €1.5m

POLITICAL party canvassers didn’t make it to the door of this unusual home, a rounded Martello tower with the ‘For Sale’ boards going up, just as the election posters come down.

Three-bed Martello to fetch €1.5m

Built in the early 1800s to keep military and naval marauders, as well as the French forces of the politically astute Napoleon Bonaparte out, this Irish Martello tower is now inviting people in. If they have €1.5 million or more to hand to breach its defences, that is.

With walls 9’ thick, of stone and brick, it is literally bomb-proof: in fact, back during the War of Independence its stored munitions went up with a bang. The internal walls came down, but the rest stood steady.

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