Glassamucky Brakes

Nearest town:
Tallaght (7km NW)
OS reference:
O115209
OS sheet:
50
Latitude:
53° 13' 36.53 N
Longitude:
6° 19' 48.83 W
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Images

Image of Glassamucky Brakes (Stone Circle) by ryaner

A little under half the circumference of the ‘circle’.

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ryaner May 8, 2022
Image of Glassamucky Brakes (Stone Circle) by ryaner

There was a fire on the Brakes in the summer but the gorse on the eastern arc escaped the flames. I had a root around under there today and you can see the stones that would complete the circle.

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ryaner Dec 29, 2019
Image of Glassamucky Brakes (Stone Circle) by ryaner

Corrig and Seahan at the other side of Glenasmole valley over the circle.

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ryaner
ryaner Dec 29, 2019
Image of Glassamucky Brakes (Stone Circle) by ryaner

Remains of a Dublin stone circle, not 10 minutes drive from where I live. This is recorded as either a ‘hut site’ or an ‘enclosure’ on the national monuments database (I can’t make out which dot refers to what feature) but doesn’t have field notes or a description. I first came here in 2009 after reading about it in Fourwind’s first book and have returned often since. There is a lot of gorse in the putative south-east arc of the ‘circle’ and there are stones under there but hard to make out. The stones visible here are all in the north-west arc.

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ryaner
ryaner May 17, 2017
Image of Glassamucky Brakes (Stone Circle) by ryaner

The platform of the interior of the circle falls away on the exterior on the north-west side

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ryaner Mar 15, 2009
Image of Glassamucky Brakes (Stone Circle) by ryaner

North-west, down the Dodder valley, with Piperstown Hill prominent

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ryaner Mar 15, 2009
Image of Glassamucky Brakes (Stone Circle) by ryaner

Looking across the circle over to Ballymorefinn and Slievebawnogue

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ryaner Mar 15, 2009

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