Great Sugar Loaf

Great Sugar Loaf
Great Sugar Loaf, from the south
Highest point
Elevation501 m (1,644 ft)[1]
Prominence216 m (709 ft)[1]
ListingMarilyn, Arderin
Coordinates53°9′18″N 6°9′0″W / 53.15500°N 6.15000°W / 53.15500; -6.15000
Naming
Native nameÓ Cualann
English translationlump of Cualu
Geography
Great Sugar Loaf is located in island of Ireland
Great Sugar Loaf
Great Sugar Loaf
Location in Ireland
LocationCounty Wicklow, Ireland
Parent rangeWicklow Mountains
OSI/OSNI gridO2377613088
Topo mapOSi Discovery 56
Geology
Mountain typeQuartzite bedrock[1]
Climbing
Easiest routeRed Lane car-park

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]

  1. ^ a b c "Great Sugar Loaf". MountainViews Online Database. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  2. ^ Paul Tempan (February 2012). "Irish Hill and Mountain Names" (PDF). MountainViews.ie.
  3. ^ Simon Stewart (October 2018). "Arderins: Irish mountains of 500+m with a prominence of 30m". MountainViews Online Database.
  4. ^ Simon Stewart (October 2018). "Vandeleur-Lynams: Irish mountains of 600+m with a prominence of 15m". MountainViews Online Database.
  5. ^ Mountainviews, (September 2013), "A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins", Collins Books, Cork, ISBN 978-1-84889-164-7
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference imc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).