Cunard Portal Tomb
The Shed Stone of Cunard Location In the hills southwest of Tallaght, amidst the Dublin Mountains, lies the Portal Tomb of Cunard. Nestled beside a gurgling stream on marshy terrain, this ancient structure stands on a slope overlooking the Dodder River and gazing towards Seefin passage tomb on a mountain top to the south west, with it's back to civilisation. It is a place of natural beauty, where the otherworld feels close at hand. The tomb is set on a steep, southwest-facing slope of the rock-strewn Glassamucky Brakes (Mothar Ghlaise na Muice, meaning 'the brakes of the streamlet of the swine-herd'). This peaceful locale overlooks the valley of the Dodder, a river which has born silent witness to all of human history and development in Dublin. The tomb is flanked by brooding mountains: Glendoo Mountain (Sliabh an Ghleanna Dhuibh, meaning 'glen of the black moor') and Glassamucky Mountain to the east and northeast, and Corrig Mountain (An Charraig) and Seahan Mounta...
