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Dublin/Wicklow Area Dublin Mountains Subarea

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Maximum height for area: 925 metres

Summits in area: 89

OS Map(s): 28B, 49, 50, 55, 56, 61, 62 for all tops

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Seefin Mountain	Wicklow County
Suí Finn A name in Irish	(Language)
(Ir. Suí Finn [PNCW*], 'Fionn’s seat')
Height: 621 metres	OS 1/50k Mapsheet: 56 for top
Grid Ref: O07397 16251	Latitude: 53.186149 Longitude: -6.394182
ITM: 707322 716281	Prominence: 22m Isolation: 1.5km
There is an impressive megalithic cairn on Seefin. It is still possible to enter it, although the roof has collapsed at the centre. Seefin is the 242nd highest summit in Ireland. Our data has reached 80% of the goal for this summit. (Details)

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Great views with megalithic history.

Short Summary created by simon3 31 May 2011 Seefin has many attractions for the walker, giving great views over west Wicklow, the Pollaphuca Reservoir and Kildare. It also has a magnificent megalithic tomb parts of which it is still possible to clamber into.
There's a number of ways of reaching the top. One place to start from is O 0636 1747 (Point A). Walk from there to around O06291685 (Point B) and then head up the hill keeping outside the boundary fence of the Kilbride Firing Range. The advantage of this starting point is that should you be doing a circuit coming back via Seahan, you are positioned fairly far north.
Alternatively you can start from various places such as O068 154 (Point C) (up a ride) or the car park at Kippure Bridge O079145 (Point D). It will take about 30 mins to reach the top.
Incidentally this summit with its cairn is with its neighbour Seefingan very visible on the approaches to Dublin on the M7/ N7.

Point A: O0636 1747	Point B: O0629 1685	Point C: O068 154
Point D: O079 145	(turn area map On)

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Picture: Views to Mullaghcleevaun and Coronation Plantation from Athdown Brook. Expand pics.

by Homerclesse 28 Mar 2010 I have tackled this summit a number of times from a couple of approaches. My favourite is to 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 heading a little north of west to the summit Seefin. A very interesting Cairn awaits and will be your heading in clear weather. Great views of the Blessington Lakes, the other hills of the West Wicklow range, south to Mullaghcleevaun and east to Kippure and Sugar Loaf.

An alternative route is to park on the west side of Seefin at the gates and go straight up the Forest track.

Seefin can be incorporated into a nice ridge walk to Seefingan and Kippure or to Seechon and Corrig and Back to Seefin.

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by padodes 3 Nov 2008 If you like combining a walk in the hills with a stroll through history, then Seefin provides plenty of interest. The easiest approach is from a point south of the entrance to the army rifle range at Kilbride. Starting at O 068 154 (Point C) (limited parking), a 250m climb takes you straight up a forest ride (not shown on the OSI map) to the 621m summit and to one of the finest surviving prehistoric sites in Wicklow: the passage tomb at O 0735 1626 (Point E).

The huge cairn on top – a full 24m across and 3m high – is already quite impressive, but as you circle around to the north, the exposed entrance, with its massive lintel and posts, gives the first real taste of what lies within. From here, a 7m long passage extends back into the corbelled central chamber, now open to the sky since the capstones were removed. The recent photo I took gives a fisheye view of the (snow-ribbed) top of the cairn, looking into the chamber below. In the chamber itself, accessed either by squeezing through the passage or by letting oneself down through the open top, there are five alcoves, some of which are now partly obstructed by rock-fall. They would probably have held human remains, but when the tomb was excavated in 1931/32, it appears that no vestiges of burial or other artefacts were found. That is hardly surprising, however, when one considers that the tomb has been open for the best part of two millennia. The etching, on one of the roof-stones, of a Greek (equal-armed) cross, thought to be of early Christian origin, would seem to prove that.

Point C: O068 154

Point E: O0735 1626

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by csd 13 Apr 2003 The easiest way to approach Seefin is from the car park at Kippure Bridge. Follow the forest track up, but rather than marching all the way to the top using this track, veer right just before the track dips into a ford and follow the Athdown Brook up (see picture). This is a pleasant detour which will bring you up onto the Seefin - Seefingan track. If you want to come back down via the forest tracks, note that the Harvey map is not 100% accurate - there appears to be at least one extra SW-NE track not marked on the map, north of the two that are marked.

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by csd 13 Apr 2003 The entrance to the megalithic tomb at the summit of Seefin. Unfortunately the roof of the cairn has collapsed.

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by sinbadw 8 Nov 2004 Instead of paking at Kippure bridge we drove past (towards Kilbride) and took the next right. About 1k further up this road there is a gate on the right with a stile beside it. Going over the stile and heading south east we followed the forrest road for about 400m, turned left, followed the road around a bend to the right and then turned left again. There is a rough track on the right a short way on from here that goes straight as an arrow towards the top of seefin. The cloud was low and we quickly found that we were unable to see any great distance. As we reached the top and stopped to read the sign beside the megalithic tomb a pair of ravens silently ghosted out of the mist towards us and then onwards, disappearing once again without a sound, barely moving their wings. We met a man from Leixlip and his dog who told us of some interesting markings to be found in the rocks on Tonduff south, will check that out next time we are up there.

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