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Where Napoleon's Fear Created Literature's Greatest Swimming Pool

June 30th, 1804 witnessed the British War Office ordering construction of the Sandycove Martello Tower when Napoleon Bonaparte's threatened invasion forced defensive fortification of the Irish coast, creating the military installation that would become literature's most famous…

Sandycove is a small place in County Dublin. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.