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Dublin/Wicklow Area Dublin Mountains Subarea Printable format Maximum height for area: 925 metres Summits in area: 88 OS Map(s): 28B, 49, 50, 55, 56, 61, 62 for all tops Set Area Map On     Kippure Mountain Dublin/ Wicklow County Cipiúr A name in Irish (Language) (Ir. Cipiúr [OSI], origin obscure) Height: 757 metres OS 1/50k Mapsheet: 56 for top Grid Ref: O11582 15455 Latitude: 53.178139 Longitude: -6.331884 ITM: 711506 715485 Prominence: 262m   Isolation: 3.3km The River Liffey rises high on the slopes of Kippure. The name as shown on Discovery map is simply a transliteration of a pronunciation collected locally, but without any clear meaning. It resembles ciop, 'stump' and iúr, 'yew', but 'stump of yew' would be Ciop Iúir. Yew is unlikely to have ever grown near such a high exposed summit, but the name also refers to a townland which descends to the valley, so a connection with yew is not impossible. Kippure is the 73rd highest summit in Ireland. Kippure is the highest point in county Dublin. Our data has reached 100% of the goal for this summit. (Details)     COMMENTS for Kippure Page 1 2 3 4 Next page >> Picture: A quiet spot Expand pics.   All points of the Compass Short Summary created by wicklore  1 Jul 2010 Kippure is the highest and most southerly summit in Dublin. It is crowned by a 110 metre high transmitter, and is approachable from all points of the compass. It can be walked on its own or as a route combining several other local summits. Most routes involve heavy, open bog, while one approach makes use of a gated access road. The summit is urbanised and ugly, but the views on a good day are expansive in all directions, taking in Dublin, Bray, the Irish Sea and many of the Wicklow hills all around. North, an approach through Glenasmole is possible from O109 199 (Point A), or from a bog track at O131 198 (Point B). East, the adventurous can start at the cottage at Lough Bray Lower at O142 164 (Point C) and head up the steep ground between the two lakes. Otherwise park at O143 153 (Point D) and follow a track that skirts the corrie walls. The gated access road at O141 142 (Point E) is the most popular with the Sunday stroller. South, typical approaches are from O137 137 (Point F), or from O080145 (Point G), both of which cross heavy bog on the way up. West, start at O063 169 (Point H) and take in Seefin and Seefingan en route. North West, start at O073200 (Point I) and take in Seahan, Corrig and Seefingan en route. Caution is needed if approaching from Seahan or Seefin to the west as these routes partly follow the boundary of the Kilbride Army Rifle Range. The approach from Glenasmole to the north is the quietest, and offers secret babbling brooks, mini cataracts and river cliffs, wild goats and plenty of peace. Point A: O109 199 Point B: O131 198 Point C: O142 164 Point D: O143 153 Point E: O141 142 Point F: O137 137 Point G: O080 145 Point H: O063 169 Point I: O073 200 (turn area map On) Comment Rating (4.00) Expand pics. by padodes  15 Jan 2009 The broad shoulder of Kippure that slopes down to the east drops precipitously into the twin corries of Lough Bray Upper and Lough Bray Lower, separated by the blunt wedge of the Eagle’s Crag (see photo). The walk around the rim, above the brooding lakes, has plenty to grip the attention, but there’s also a literary association that gives added interest to any walker’s visit to this area of rugged beauty. On 28 June 1907, John Millington Synge, himself an inveterate walker, began a happy two-week stay in the roadside gate lodge, then known as McGuirk’s Cottage, at the entrance to Lough Bray House (that nestles, out of sight, on the northern shore of the lower lake). He found peace here after the furore that had surrounded the staging of "The Playboy of the Western World" at the beginning of the year. He noted down his impressions in a travelogue, "Glencree", that would later be published in the collection "In Wicklow and West Kerry". In phrase after phrase he evokes exactly the same experience that is ours today. Just a sample: “I have come out again on the mountain road the third day of the fog. At first it was misty only, and then a cloud crept up the water gullies from the valley of the Liffey, and in a moment I am cut off in a white silent cloud. The little turfy ridges on each side of the road have the look of glens to me, and every block of stone has the size of a house. The cobwebs on the furze are like a silvery net and the silence is so great and queer… Then, as I walk on, I see out over a cloud to the tops of real mountains standing up into the sky.” I don’t know if Synge wrote his poem "To the Oaks of Glencree" during his visit in 1907, but, with its melancholy premonition of death, I would like to think so. He was already suffering from the cancer that would claim his young life only two years later. (Comment Rating 4.83) Your Score: Very useful <<  >>Average Picture: Kippure across the Boggy Athdown Pass. Expand pics.   by Homerclesse  28 Mar 2010 I've approached the summit a few times by two alternative routes. The first is a straight up down route following the tarmac road from the gates off the Military Road. Although a rewarding view awaits it's not the most inspiring route and a little obvious. The second route is by a couple of approaches. Park at the gates of the Kippure Estate and follow the track across the road. This eventually leads into heavy forest with a lot of deeply rutted tracks and felled trees. The best option is to head to the river bank (Athdown Brook) and climb up along the left side bank of it. A nice view behind you to the Coronation Plantation and the Mullaghcleevaun Range. Once you clear the line of trees on the left then it's simply a matter of climbing up to the top of Seefingan with it's mighty Cairn. Great views of the Blessington Lakes, the other hills of the West Wicklow range, south to Mullaghcleevaun and east to Kippure, our destination. It's very hard to miss with it's huge Aerial on top. Head out across the boggy Athdown pass and follow a line up to the top of Kippure. Being the highest point in County Dublin you will be rewarded with amazing views on a clear day. All the major summits are visable. It's a very boggy approach in places but very challenging. Head back down roughly 220 degrees to the bridge on the Sally Gap and back to the car along the Road. An alternative route is to park on the west side of Seefin at the gates and go straight up the Forest track. Follow the ridge from Seefin and then to Seefingan and on to Kippure as described above. The obvious disadvantage is you'll be heading back the same way to the car. (Comment Rating 4.65) Your Score: Very useful <<  >>Average Picture: The deer aren't as interested in me as I am in them. Expand pics. by SDillmore  12 Jul 2005 Took the meandering access road up. After having done Lug earlier in the day I was too tired for the direct ascent (the 28 degree temperature all day didn't help either). Near sunset on the way down, I almost missed two large herds of deer. I caught the first group looking back, glimpsing their silhouette. (Comment Rating 4.50) Your Score: Very useful <<  >>Average Picture: Lough Bray Upper and Eagles' Crag Expand pics.   by padodes  21 Jan 2009 I would like to add a few details to Wicklore’s comment on walking around Lough Bray (Upper and Lower), which may add to the interest of exploring this area. The massive outcrop between the two corries is known as the Eagles’ Crag (although the name does not appear in the OSI map). It is recorded that eagles did, in fact, breed here into the 19th century, when they were finally hunted to extermination. It still isn’t unusual to see a peregrine falcon or kestrel rising on the thermals created by the corries, but you are just as likely to see today colourful paragliders doing the same when the weather is favourable. The corries themselves were formed during the last Ice Age and marked the head of a glacier that flowed down the length of Glencree Valley, with, I would surmise, minor tributaries coming from Raven’s Rock glen (east of Lugduff) and the little glen at Powerscourt Waterfall, each of which has its own modest cirque. The lakes that formed behind the moraines are quite deep and do not seem to communicate above ground, which has led to speculation that they may nonetheless be connected underground, with a flow from the Upper to the Lower. The water is acidic and low in nutrients, so aquatic life is rather poor and you will see that waterfowl are infrequent visitors. I read once that whooper swans have been known to descend here in winter, but I have never myself seen their white beauty on these black waters, despite many a visit. There is abundant plant life around the corries, I am assured, but the names that leave some botanising friends of mine ecstatic, like woodrush, cowberry and quillwort, are rather lost on me. Parking close to the roadside cottage by Lough Bray Lower is very restricted, but this does not prevent, at weekends, a lot of cars from parking there anyway, and on both sides of the narrow road at that. It can be hard to get by, if you are travelling through. Add to that the madness of tour operators who have begun to send big coaches over the Military Road in recent years, and you have all the ingredients of a bottleneck worthy of the Red Cow Roundabout. (Comment Rating 4.44) Your Score: Very useful <<  >>Average Expand pics. by padodes  25 Jan 2009 At the risk of appearing to comment lately on nothing else but Kippure and the twin corries at its eastern end, I would like to add a little detail to the more interesting Lower Lough this time. In his book ‘The Neighbourhood of Dublin’ (1920), the walking enthusiast Weston St. John Joyce spoke of the lower lake as “a wild, gloomy tarn…believed by some to be the crater of an old-world volcano”. There’s an earlier reference to this hypothesis in A. G. Wright’s ‘A Guide to the County of Wicklow’ (1827), who says that “appearances favour the conjecture”. We know today that the true origin of the lake lies in the power of ice, but looking at the photo (I used a fish-eye to capture as much as possible), one can easily see how the mistake could be made. On the far side of the lake can be seen the south-facing Lough Bray House, “embosomed in a grove of trees”, as St. John Joyce writes. He says it was “built in the Old English style of architecture, and was originally a gift by the Duke of Northumberland when Lord Lieutenant, to his medical adviser, Sir Philip Crampton”, but other accounts I have seen link the house to Lady Powerscourt, who is said to have built a summer house (or shooting lodge) here towards the end of the 19th century. At the western end of the lake, which comprises 37 Irish acres, a beach was created by bringing up cartloads of sand all the way from Brittas Bay. I was surprised to read, recently, that the lake even has its monster in residence. On the web page www.paranormaldatabase.com/ireland/leinster, there’s an account, dated 3 June 1963, of “Two friends watching the Lough [who] spotted a large, dark grey circular body rise from the lake, almost four metres in circumference. The head was slightly away from the body, and stood 90 centimetres out of the water”. Believe it if you will. 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