Great Sugar Loaf
Mountain in County Wicklow, Ireland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the hill in East Wicklow. For its smaller neighbour, see Little Sugar Loaf. For the similarly named hill in West Wicklow, see Sugarloaf (West Wicklow). For other mountains of the same name, see List of mountains named Sugarloaf.
Great Sugar Loaf (Irish: Ó Cualann, meaning 'lump of Cualu')[2] at 501 metres (1,644 ft), is the 404th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin scale,[3] however, being below 600 m it does not rank on the Vandeleur-Lynam or Hewitt scales.[4][5] The mountain is in the far northeastern section of the Wicklow Mountains, in Ireland, and overlooks the village of Kilmacanogue. The profile of the mountain means it can be mistaken for a dormant volcano. It owes its distinctive shape, however, to the erosion-resistant metamorphosed deep-sea sedimentary deposit from which its quartzite composition was derived.[6]
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Great Sugar Loaf | |
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Ó Cualann | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 501 m (1,644 ft)[1] |
Prominence | 216 m (709 ft)[1] |
Listing | Marilyn, Arderin |
Coordinates | 53°9′18″N 6°9′0″W |
Naming | |
English translation | lump of Cualu |
Language of name | Irish |
Geography | |
Location | Wicklow, Ireland |
Parent range | Wicklow Mountains |
OSI/OSNI grid | O2377613088 |
Topo map | OSi Discovery 56 |
Geology | |
Mountain type | Quartzite bedrock[1] |
Climbing | |
Easiest route | Red Lane car-park |
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