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Maximum height for area: 925 metres Summits in area: 89
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Lobawn Mountain Wicklow County
Lúbán A name in Irish (Language)
(Ir. Lúbán [PNCW], 'little bend')
Height: 636 metres OS 1/50k Mapsheet: 56 for top
Grid Ref: S97781 97807 Latitude: 53.022329 Longitude: -6.543584
ITM: 697708 697841 Prominence: 111m   Isolation: 2.7km
Rating graphic. Lobawn is also the name of a townland in the parish of Donaghmore. In 1839 John O'Donovan interpreted this name as Leomhach Bán, 'white leo or land abounding in marsh mallows'. Cf. Leoh townland and Leoh Mountain N of Lugnaquilla.

Lobawn is the 222nd highest summit in Ireland. Our data has reached 70% of the goal for this summit. (Details)
   
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Lobawn in area Dublin/Wicklow, County Wicklow, Ireland
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by simon3  17 Mar 2003 Lobawn has a flattish top. A series of ridges lead from it. The picture was taken from the broad, fairly flat ridge leading towards Donard to the west. The village of Donard is a convenient place to start from when walking in this area. The picture shows Sugarloaf (552m) in the mid-ground with Keadeen some 8k away on the skyline. Lobawn connects to Sugarloaf via a southerly ridge. This is to the left of the summit shown here. Between Keadeen and Sugarloaf lies the Glen of Imail, which includes an artillery range. As you can see from the foreground, Lobawn’s west ridge has a wet boggy surface. Unfortunately scramblers or dune-buggies have considerably damaged the surface of this ridge in places
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Magic Moment
by jlk  4 Mar 2012 Fabulous March Madness
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Sweet spot all round
by march-fixer  7 May 2012 Located to the east of Donard in west Wicklow, it is nicely tucked away at the head of a number of lovely glens. Most walkers seem to approach from the south or west, whereas I think it is best approached from the north, either as part of a walk from Corriebracks or in its own right from the very scenic road leading into the glen and Lugglass Lower. This glen road in is reached either from the Hollywood or Wicklow Gap direction.

My reasoning is that the glen road in from the north is a visual treat on its own and brings you to a forest entrance. From here you may follow the forest track a good distance to the top. See track-1569 for directions. There is a little bit of rough ground from where you leave the track up to the edge of the forest.

While there is some erosion on the east-west track, there is no sign of damage by access from the north. It is a lovely view, from a rather flat top, should you be blessed with good weather.

There is a fair chance that you will not meet any other walkers on your travels up here.
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by csd  22 Jun 2003 The ridges up to Lobawn are beginning to succumb to the dreaded motorbike scramblers. It hasn't quite reached the levels of Slieve Maan yet, but I'm sure it's not far off. Picture shows the summit - anyone know what this pillar means? There's another one on the way over from Sugarloaf.
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by davema  20 Aug 2006 Walked Lobawn a few weeks ago, during the nice sunny period. Great views from the top. We parked in Donard, and followed a small road, which turned into a bridleway and led past a cairn to the ridge trending east up towards lobawn. I realise now from other comments that the peculiar wide grassy tracks were probably made be scamblers/quads. Headed south and then west to Sugarloaf hill, and then descended (steeply) towards an obvious forest road below. Route finding towards the bottom wasn't obvious, but we followed small tracks through some felled land to reach the roads in the forest , and then the road that led us back to Donard - 4 hours easy walk. Would be much more strenuous in the other direction, due to the long steep slog up Sugarloaf.
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by Geo  13 Sep 2009 Climbed this from Sugarloaf (which disappointingly isn't here on MV, one less to claim as bagged :-( ) There isn't a whole lot up there on the somewhat dull top, except the forlorn WD (War Department) Pillar awash in its watery peat. A beautiful Indian summer day, what a change from the washout summer days. Lovely views form up here, the mist over the midlands was punctuated by the summits peeping through of the nearby ranges of Blackstairs, etc.It's a gateway to the Northern ridge partly enclosing the Glen of Imaal. My 100th summit logged on MV... woohoo!
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