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Maximum height for area: 794 metres Summits in area: 14
OS Map(s): 74, 82 for all tops Set Area Map On
   

Sugarloaf Hill Mountain Tipperary/ Waterford County
Cnoc na gCloch A name in Irish (Language)
(Ir. Cnoc na gCloch [OSI], 'hill of the stones')
Height: 663 metres OS 1/50k Mapsheet: 74 for top
Grid Ref: S03970 10479 Latitude: 52.246503 Longitude: -7.942614
ITM: 603918 610532 Prominence: 118m   Isolation: 2.1km
Rating graphic. The name 'Sugarloaf' is widely applied to hills of a conical shape in Ireland and Britain. Its equivalent 'pain de sucre' is common in France. It is also found further afield, e.g. at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil (Pão de Açúcar in Portuguese) and the Montmorency Falls in Canada, where the name 'Pain de Sucre' is applied to the cone of ice which forms at the base of the waterfall in winter. There is a widespread misconception nowadays that 'sugarloaf' is some kind of bread. In fact, the word refers to the form in which sugar was usually sold all over the world, at least up to the 19th century, until granulated sugar became widely available in packets. The sugary liquid was dripped onto a surface and a solid mass formed in a conical or torpedo-like shape, like a sugary stalagmite. Sugar is still available in this form in North Africa, and it is also used in Germany to make the drink 'Feuerzangenbowle', for which the sugarloaf must first be soaked in rum.
Sugarloaf Hill is the 170th highest summit in Ireland. Sugarloaf Hill is the most northerly summit in the Knockmealdown Mountains area. Our data has reached 70% of the goal for this summit. (Details)
   

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Sugarloaf Hill in area Knockmealdown Mountains, County Tipperary/ Waterford, Ireland
Picture: Sugarloaf just right of centre, from Knockmealdown Expand pics.
 
Sentry of the Vee gap
Short Summary created by jackill  5 Mar 2011 Start at the Vee, where there is lots of room to park safely by the roadside, and head up the rough, often boggy track past the Grubb monument (large stone cairn by the roadside), to the summit.
You can also park in Bay lough carpark S031 101 (Point A), cross the main road and follow the steep rocky track, keeping the stone wall to your left to the top of the Sugarloaf.
You can make the ascent somewhat easier by parking at the Vee, walk to the sharp apex of the Vee itself and follow the Munster way( signposted as St Declans way here) down into Glenmoylan. Do not cross the stream instead follow the path to the right going up the glen almost as far as where the non-existant Lough Moylan is shown on the OS maps , look for a rocky zig-zag path going up to the col between the Sugarloaf and Knockmealdown and follow it up. Cross the col to find the wall and follow it west to the Sugarloaf.
Point A: S031 101 (turn area map On)

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