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I've always been told that The Seven Fonts was well out of bounds. Please tell me about access!

You've done very well to get to so many. Nice one!

FourWinds wrote:
I've always been told that The Seven Fonts was well out of bounds. Please tell me about access!
The Wicklow Gap road, coming down from the old mines, hits the Laragh/Glendalough road at that horrible junction where you have to almost do a u-turn to turn right. 100 metres or so back from this on the Wicklow Gap road the Wicklow Way comes down to the road from Brockagh mountain. There's a clear signpost for it there and directly opposite on the other side of the road there's a farmgate. Over this about 20 metres into the field and to your left is the first of the bullauns. The rest are fairly easy to spot with the bracken dead at this time of year. I called into the Glendalough visitor's centre and the lady at reception told me, after I had asked about access, that there wouldn't be a problem, though I'm not sure whether that's official policy.

FourWinds wrote:
You've done very well to get to so many. Nice one!
Thanks. I got there late in the day and wished I'd had more time and better light.

I can't be the only one but what are these Ballaun thingies? are they like cup marks or do they have a function?

Thanks to both of you, that one Ryaner linked us to is quite pretty isn't it ,so there a bit of an enigma like most ancient things are they?
When I saw the Deer stone last year I dont think I'd ever heard of Bullauns I just thought hmmm wonder what that is looks a bit conspicuous, took a photo and moved on

Isn't Ireland wonderful if I didn't live in a different country the Bullaun bug would be biting