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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.

Brockagh fieldnotes updated with directions. Doh!

I shall be spending a little time down that way myself soon now that I know they're accessible.

What I'm curious about is whether what you list as The Seven Fonts is the bullaun Weir mentions and calls The Seven Sisters. It's this one that I was told was (and I paraphrase) 'out of bounds, because it's in someone's garden over the road from the pub by the bridge'.

Interesting stuff!

ryaner wrote:
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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.

And there was me thinking it was just your driving!!!!!! How may U-turns did we do that day????????? ;-)

Vx