Brehon's Chair

Portal Tomb
Townland Taylorsgrange
County Dublin
Grid Ref O 158 255
OS Sheet 50
Longitude 6° 15' 51.1" W
Latitude 53° 16' 1.96" N
Nearest Town Tallaght (7Km)
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Some Nearby Mountains:
Two Rock Mountain 3.5Km (SSE)
Prince William's Seat 7.3Km (SSE)
Seahan 9.6Km (SW)
Poolbeg Lighthouse 10.5Km (NE)
Kippure New 11Km (SSW)

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Saturday, 5th January 2002 CE

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This place really surprised me. I had looked for it before but in slightly the wrong place. It now sits in the middle of a play area on a very new housing estate.

My first impressions have been proved wrong. What else, I thought, could have upright stones as mighty as these but a passage tomb, but apparently it was a mighty dolmen known as Brehon's Chair.

Three very tall (3m) stones (the 2 portal stones and 1 door stone) remain and they give off an amazingly overpowering influence. The site lies in a dip or henge about 30m in diameter.

However, apart from its ruinous state that hides what it once must have been, other factors that ruin this site are the nearby houses and the M50 motorway.

Thursday, 11th April 2002 CE

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The final stop on this short four hour tour of Dublin sites. I wanted to do so many more but other pressures prevented it. Even with this site being next to a motorway and in this sterile estate it is not a bad end to a day.

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Saturday, 5th January 2002 CE

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