In the August 2003 edition of ‘NewsFour’, I wrote a short article about the Leinster Martello Towers. In it I explained that the one on the seafront in Bray was ‘number one’.

The photograph in our issue was of the familiar one in Sandymount with the ‘Joyce Pilgrims’ about to recreate the 50th anniversary of the ‘First Bloomsday’ on June 16th 1954.

Up to the time the paper was printed I could not manage to find a reasonable photograph showing the Bray tower. I was jokingly taken to task on a few occasions since then from a few friends and acquaintances who very gently reminded me that I had to produce a copy or else the article could not be validated.

It is thanks to the assistance from the chief librarian in Bray that this one was pointed out and a copy given to me. It shows tower number one at the bottom of Convent Road almost facing the Esplanade Hotel (the building jutting out on the right). The tower was dismantled sometime in the late 1880s.