Tower on hill in south-east Dublin city

mambo

Anyone know the name, or even map location, of the tower on a hillside that you can see, for example, looking very roughly south-east from Leopardstown racecourse (i.e. looking to the right when in the main stand), though it's visible from a wide area of south Dublin city?

admiralofthefleet

are you describing pucks castle or the obelisk in killiney park?

mambo

Not either of those, but I did a search for Puck's Castle and I came across:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballycorus_Leadmines

which is that one I had in mind. Thanks for the lead!

admiralofthefleet

its a very interesting place

Fratton Fred

I think you are refering to the smelting tower. You can walk up to it, but i would never be able to give directions I'm afraid.

admiralofthefleet

if you turn onto military road at the silver tassie pub and keep going it up on the left, behind the pitch and putt club, i havent been there in years so the memory is a bit hazy

Fratton Fred

My relatives from Ballybrack used to cycle up there as kids (We are talking 20 odd years ago) and build a huge bonfire inside it, with the hope that they could set it alight and get home and watch the smoke.

Victor

Fratton Fred wrote: »

I think you are refering to the smelting tower. You can walk up to it, but i would never be able to give directions I'm afraid.

I think this is it. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=ballycorus+road+dublin&sll=53.246882,-6.154232&sspn=0.009411,0.027294&ie=UTF8&ll=53.224468,-6.163824&spn=0.002354,0.006824&t=h&z=18

It is certainly on OS maps.

mambo

Yes, that's it. You can see the flue that carried the gases to the tower running north-west from the tower.