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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Brennanstown Alternative Name: Glendruid, The Druids’ AltarCountry: Ireland (Republic of) County: Co. Dublin Type: Portal Tomb
Nearest Town: Dun Laoghaire Nearest Village: Cabinteely
Map Ref: O2286824182
Discovery Map Number: D50
Latitude: 53.254030N Longitude: 6.159786W
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4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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gaoithe visited on 17th Mar 2011 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 3 local cycle + walk, Glendruid/Brennanstown Dolmen and Tully's high cross
I think this site had been scheduled to become a developed shopping centre/apartments/??? site.
However the Celtic Tiger crashed so for the moment this is still an amazing place to visit.
We more or less used the directions from Brennanstown Vale on megalithomania site. The lane in Brennanstown lane now ends in a new 6ft wall which we climbed over. The start of that route should be changed to Carrickmines Luas stop. No wall climbing needed from there.
Start at Carrickmines Luas stop. Walk along the Luas line until Brennanstown Luas stop (not an operating Luas stop). There is plenty space to walk beside Luas line now (Mar 2011) planting is still very young. At Brennanstown Luas stop climb rail and climb over wall into valley directly OR easier to go longer way around out of Luas stop on other side, enter field and go around under the bridge into the valley.
These directions still work 2019.
The walk in the valley beside stream in woods with big old trees is very nice.
Tully's high crosses and church not too far away:
http://www.megalithomania.com/show/site/236/tully_church_church.htm
http://read-out.net/cabinteely/tully/site.html
Today, lá fheile Padraic, we went to scout mass, had Irish breakfast at home, cycled to near Brennanstown luas, jumped over a wall, visited dolmen and stream and valley. Met Mary and Rocky. Cycled on Laghanstown road to Tully's church. Cycled on cul de sac, over motorway, over 2 gates home via Kilternan. Whew! 17k cycle.
3 bananas, 2 apples, 2 oranges, water, apple, purple dilutable
http://gaoithe.blogspot.com/2011/03/local-cycle-walk-brennanstown-dolmen.html
Hidden in a small glen behind a modern bungalow (‘Glendruid House’) some 800 metres SSW of Cabinteely and on the left-hand side of the Brenanstown road when approaching from the N.7 and 400 metres past a signpost pointing to Tully Church and Crosses, this superb dolmen is well worth the trouble of finding and asking permission to visit. Seven granite uprights support a huge, characteristically-tilted capstone some 4.5 metres square and weighing 40 tonnes. This is one of the few megalithic tombs to be approached from above, so that one can see 2 artificial channels forming an inverted V carved on the top of the roofstone.
~ 2 kms SE (O 255230), surrounded by surburbia, immediately W of the Ballybrack-Bray road and 200 metres N of the junction of it with the Bray-Killiney road, in a football field opposite a house emblazoned with the name “Cromlech”, and entered via a door in the hedge, is Ballybrack Cromlech: a granite portal-tomb fenced in for protection. It too has a typically tilted capstone 2 metres long raised 2.7metres from the ground, with a single deep cupmark. Despite the disappearance of some sidestones and the backstone, the dolmen is worth finding.
~ 4 kms WSW in Kiltiernan (O 197224), 1.5 kms SSE of Stepaside, along a cul-de-sac leading off the N.43 for 500 metres, then up a private avenue and across 3 stony fields along a rough path which leads to the megalith from above is another portal-tomb with a huge capstone – which has displaced some of its supporting stones – and a very large chamber.
~ 5.5 kms WSW in Ballyedmonduff (O 185212) on the slope of Two-Rock Mountain, up three fields by a golf-course to the W of a by-road between the N.43 and the R.41 is a fine , unusually large and beautifully-situated Wedge-tomb commanding a fine view to the SW. Some of its kerbstones are massive, and though ruinous, the rectangular, double-walled gallery, divided into portico, main chamber and closed E chamber (as at Labbacallee in county Cork) are well-defined.
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