Terry Prone: Note the rules of Martello tour — book in advance and don't break the gate

Many visitors spent childhood summers on the beach down below the tower, looking up at this ugly hulk

For some, the determination to see inside a Martello overcomes any possibility of backing off and the gate fell victim to this persistence.

I'm thinking of suing the Heritage Council for €780. Plus Vat. Here’s the thinking behind me turning litigious.

The Martello tower wherein I live is one of the hits of Heritage Week, a late-summer event that, in an engagingly Irish way, lasts nine days.