Private Forest.

The summit of this hill is located in a private forest Dunranhill Forest not Coillte accessed (with permission) at its entrance located at DnHill N (O25879 02887) which allows a very easy accent over forest roads to within meters of the trig. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/1101/comment/16083/

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Resist the call to crawl

Having read the others comments about Dunran Hill, and the fact that on a previous occasion I also drove around looking for access to this Hill. I started at DnHill SE (O24609 00899) was able to park car back in off road beside a farm entrance track. Across the road crossed a rusty gate and followed a short farm track into a very green fielld with some sheep grazing in the upper reaches went uphill to right hand corner of field and easily accessed the high ground beyond called Carrignamuck upper on OS sheet 56. Headed uphill to the corner of a forest at C (O251 014). I followed tha edge of this forest away to the righthand corner then keeping the edge of the forest on my left went steeply uphill to D (O255 018). Now on high heathery ground I headed in an easterly direction to Wicklores point E (E (O26032 02021)). There is a large stone wall here which I easily crossed at a suitable low point and onto a large well made forest track. Looking at the dense forest in front of me and not relishing the thought of a painful 100mt crawl through, I headed downhill to the left on this track after about 100mts I followed a track to the right uphill through the trees and came out at summit area with no scratches sore knees or the like, The trig point is just off to the right of the high point of this track among some low sized gorse bushes. Great views in all direction from here followd upward route back to car. I am not sure if summit area is private and on Dunran Demense land. There were no warning signs about access issues at the large stone wall. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/1101/comment/16012/

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Difficult access route

When researching the new 100m prominence list for MountainViews in 2012 I eventually came to Dunrahill. Despite driving around it twice I couldn't find a public access route up. I ended up in a a small boreen road to the south where a passing local man pointed me to a farm gate he said I could use to head up at DnHill S (O25908 01155). The gate was locked and there was a track beyond it. After about 300 metres I left the track and headed uphill to the left. I eventually reached a rocky plateau with a dense forest beyond. I entered the forest at E (O26032 02021) and I found it very difficult to get through. Dense prickly twigs poked at me and rough ground with a few rocky crags and drops had to be negotiated. There was some crawling and sliding under the densest areas of forest and wet ground and after a few hundred metres I emerged spluttering onto a forest track near the summit at F (O026 022) 02098. The summit area has a network of tracks and is clear of trees. I had to wonder where the entrance to these tracks began on the public road below as I couldn't find it. There is a trig pillar at the summit at G (O26200 02256). Fine views south to Wicklow Town and out to the Irish Sea and north to the two Sugarloafs, as well as to nearby Ballycurry. I returned by the same route generally, although I covered some new ground on the descent for variety Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/1101/comment/15988/

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Great views from a tough little hill

Tricky summit to reach. I found path all the way just short of the summit by approaching from the NW however this is private forest and permission should be granted before hand. All in all a 300m ascent from that end and 6km round trip from the public road. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/1101/comment/19847/

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Possible troublesome access

Although I visited the area around this hill briefly about a month ago, driving right around it resulted in no immediately obvious route up. Not being particularly pushed on that occasion, I abandoned without even leaving the car and headed off somewhere else.

I have since been advised that any route to the hill appears to cross private land, even gardens, that there are a large number of security cameras in the area and that there is evidence of a commercial clay pigeon shooting operation on the hill. It seems visitors would be best advised to seek permission before attempting to climb this hill.

[Update: 20 April 2014 - issue seems resolved - we have now a number of successful routes up indicated on the page] Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/1101/comment/15897/

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