Killiney Hill
Sloped hilltop park with a stone famine-relief obelisk and sweeping views over Dublin Bay.
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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.
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