Killiney Hill

This guide to Killiney Hill in Dublin opens with the inscription carved into the stone tower above you, and the desperate winter behind it: the Year of the Slaughter in 1741, when landowner John Mapas paid starving locals to build these winding paths and the tower itself rather than hand out charity. A small chamber sits inside the tower's eastern doorway, reached by a narrow staircase, and worth the climb for the view alone.