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Boherboy: Standing-stones
1.2 km SE of Saggart village centre and about 30 metres S of the road to Tallaght, are two stones 1.2 and 1.3 metres high, only 1.7 metres apart. One is pointed and the other flat-topped: Adam and Eve - though the locals name them the other way round!
~ 3.2 km S, about 400 metres E of the road to Blessington, 250 metres E of of a farm at the end of a lane, in Raheen (O 038 235), is a massive pointed standing-stone 2.1 metres high, with a line of 5 (artificial ?) hollows about 4 cms in diameter on the top right of its S face.
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 255 230), 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 197 224), 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 185 212) 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.
Howth: Portal-tomb
In the grounds of Howth Castle, romantically situated some 230 metres to the right of the entrance to the Rhododendron Walk, this dolmen has partly collapsed under the weight of its huge capstone, estimated to weigh 70 tonnes, which evidently came from the steep quartzite face of Muck Rock above. |
