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Esgair Cerrig: Long trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 10 hours ago
Using the same parking spot as Esgair Ffrwd headed south to forest before following forest edge for a while. Than at high point head east to unmarked summit. The trig pillar to the south east is E...

Esgair Ffrwd: Short trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 10 hours ago
Parked at layby to south west than a short trek to unmarked summit

Esgair Fawr: Short walk to summit from track

Summit Comment Fergalh 10 hours ago
Parked at forest entrance to south and followed the windy forest track around the hill to near the high point. Eventually a brief walk along a forest ride beside well thinned out trees led to the ...

Llethr Mawr: Short trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 11 hours ago
Parked at gate to south and followed grassy track to unmarked summit

Cyrnau: Youth Hostel close by is very remote

Summit Comment Fergalh 11 hours ago
Great views from this remote summit

Cyrnau: Long trek to summit with steep climb from valley to south

Summit Comment Fergalh 11 hours ago
Parked at corner of road at brown sign for youth hostel to the south. A long drop into valley along stone track followed by a steep climb followed which leads to a rocky summit with extensive view...

Moanbane Circuit

Track 4413 march-fixer 18 hours ago
This track was used basically as a test of the Locus Map mobile phone GPS recording and facilities. The route afford... walk, Len: 14.2km, Climb: 646m, Area: Silsean, Wicklow (Ireland) Silsean, Moa||

Llethr Llwyd: Short trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 11 hours ago
Parked at cattle grid to west and followed quad tracks up hill to the unmarked summit

Esgair Llethr: Track most of way to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 11 hours ago
Park at forest entrance to South west and follow track through trees until you reach open ground. Here follow the edge of forest along track before heading east to high point which is an unmarked ...

Esgair Saeson: Forest rides from track lead to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh a day ago
From Pen Y Tywi South Top follow forest track to high point than head up to fence at edge of forest along forest ride. At forest fence follow that to highest point than use another forest ride to ...

Pen y Tywi South Top: Short trek to summit from track

Summit Comment Fergalh a day ago
Head south from Pen Tywi and head up a forest ride and than through the gap in the thinned out trees to the unmarked summit.

Pen y Tywi: Short steep climb from forest track

Summit Comment Fergalh a day ago
From Craig Guynon South Top Head directly south to where a non existent track (sunk into bog!) enters forest . Follow forest track until it turns into an encirclement of Pen Tywi. I headed up from...
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Wicklow Area   NE: Djouce Subarea
Place count in area: 115, OSI/LPS Maps: 28B, 55, 56, 61, 62, AWW 
Highest place: Lugnaquilla, 925m
Maximum height for area: 925 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 905 metres,

Places in area Wicklow:
Cen: Glendalough North:   Brockagh Mountain 557mBrockagh Mountain NW Top 548mBrockagh Mountain SE Top 470mCamaderry Mountain 698.6mCamaderry South East Top 677.3mConavalla 734mTomaneena 682.4m
Cen: Glendalough South:   Carriglineen Mountain 455mCullentragh Mountain 510mDerrybawn Mountain 474mKirikee Mountain 474mLugduff 652mLugduff SE Top 637mMullacor 657mTrooperstown Hill 430m
N Cen: Tonelagee:   Carrignagunneen 561mFair Mountain 571.2mStoney Top 714mTonelagee 817mTonelagee NE Top 668mTonelagee South-East Top 546m
NE: Bray & Kilmacanogue:   Bray Head Hill 240mCarrigoona Commons East 242mDowns Hill 372mGreat Sugar Loaf 501.2mLittle Sugar Loaf 342m
NE: Djouce:   Djouce 725.5mKnockree 342mMaulin 570mTonduff 642mTonduff East Top 593mWar Hill 684.8mWhite Hill 631.1m
NE: Fancy:   Ballinafunshoge 480mKanturk 523mKnocknacloghoge 534mLuggala 595mRobber's Pass Hill 508.9mScarr 641mScarr North-West Top 561mSleamaine 430m
NE: Vartry:   Ballinacorbeg 336mBallycurry 301mDunranhill 342mMount Kennedy 365.9m
NW: Blessington:   Carrigleitrim 408mLugnagun 446.2mSlieveroe 332mSorrel Hill 599.5m
NW: Mullaghcleevaun:   Black Hill 602.2mCarrigshouk 572.5mCarrigvore 682mDuff Hill 720mGravale 718mMoanbane 703mMullaghcleevaun 849mMullaghcleevaun East Top 795mSilsean 698m
S: Aughrim Hills:   Cushbawn 400mKilleagh 249mMoneyteige North 427mPreban Hill 389m
S: Croaghanmoira:   Ballinacor Mountain 531mBallycurragh Hill 536mBallyteige 447mCarrickashane Mountain 508mCroaghanmoira 664mCroaghanmoira North Top 575mFananierin 426mSlieve Maan 547.8mSlieve Maan North Top 546.1m
S: Croghan Kinsella:   Annagh Hill 454mCroghan Kinsella 606mCroghan Kinsella East Top 562.1mKilmichael Hill 267mSlievefoore 414m
S: Shillelagh Hills:   Lakeen 357mSeskin 344mStookeen 420m
S: Tinahely Hills:   Ballycumber Hill 431mEagle Hill 296mMuskeagh Hill 397m
SE: Wicklow South East:   Ballinastraw 284mBallyguile Hill 188mBarranisky 280mCarrick Mountain 381mCollon Hill 238mKilnamanagh Hill 217mWestaston Hill 270m
W: Baltinglass:   Ballyhook Hill 288mBaltinglass Hill 382mCarrig Mountain 571mCarrigeen Hill 298mCloghnagaune 385mCorballis Hill 258mKeadeen Mountain 653mSpinans Hill 409mSpinans Hill SE Top 400mTinoran Hill 312m
W: Cen Lugnaquilla:   Ballineddan Mountain 652mBenleagh 689mCamenabologue 758mCamenabologue SE Top 663mCloghernagh 800mCorrigasleggaun 794mLugnaquilla 925mSlievemaan 759m
W: Donard:   Brewel Hill 222mChurch Mountain 544mCorriebracks 531mLobawn 636mSlievecorragh 418mSugarloaf 552mTable Mountain 701.7mTable Mountain West Top 563m

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
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War Hill Mountain Cnoc an Bharda A name in Irish
also Cnoc an Bhairr an extra name in Irish
This is almost certainly a name coined in English. War Hill may be a
corruption of *Ward Hill, referring to a look-out point or a place
where watch was kept. Wicklow County in Leinster Province, in Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam Lists, Granite with microcline phenocrysts Bedrock

Height: 684.8m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 56 Grid Reference: O16900 11300
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Longitude: -6.2539, Latitude: 53.139683 , Easting: 316900, Northing: 211300 Prominence: 69.51m,  Isolation: 1.4km
ITM: 716823 711331,   GPS IDs, 6 char: WrHl, 10 char: War Hill
Bedrock type: Granite with microcline phenocrysts, (Type 2p microcline porphyritic)

Price's suggested Irish derivation for War Hill, whilst possible, seems rather tautological and is not backed up by any Irish attestations. Barr is itself a common term denoting a hill and is usually the first element in names, e.g. Barr Trí gCom (Baurtregaum), Barr na Coilleadh (Barnakillew), etc. Also "hill of the top" seems a strange way to describe War Hill, since it's really only a lower outlier of Djouce. An alternative is that the name was created in English, and this is supported by a reference to a battle on War Hill in a letter written on 15th December 1838 by Eugene O'Curry. “In the Townland of Lackandarragh in the Powerscourt Parish they shew a place called the Churchyard, but it does not retain the least vestige of either a church or churchyard. Some say that it was the place of sepulture of persons killed in a battle fought between the English troops and the O‟Tooles some three hundred years ago. This battle was fought on War Hill, immediately overhanging this Churchyard, on the opposite side of the river.” Of course, one would expect these events to give rise to "Battle Hill", rather than "War Hill", so this suggestion must also be treated with caution. More likely is that the name has been corrupted from *Ward Hill, and that watch was kept on this hill either by shepherds or soldiers. The village of Warcop in Westmoreland, England, provides a parallel for this. It is also named from a hill, with the first element believed to be reduced from ward- to war- [Concise Dictionary of English Place-Names, Eilert Ekwall, p. 497]. The form Cnoc an Bharda is provided here as a translation into Irish of "Ward Hill". It is not to be understood as an attested historical form. Nor does it have any connection to the word bard meaning ‘poet’.   War Hill is the 135th highest place in Ireland.
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on a crisp January morning. .. by Irishsas   (Show all for War Hill (Cnoc an Bharda))
 
Approach from north-east pretty painstaking .. by Bunsen7   (Show all for War Hill (Cnoc an Bharda))
 
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Picture: The Great Sugar Loaf and a Welsh smudge on the horizon.		  
Clear day on a neglected summit.
by simon3  8 Jun 2019
Most of the times I have been on War Hill, it has been raining and I have just climbed up the heathery and exhausting slope from the Knocknacloghoge River. So it was a pleasure to be on the top on a dry and exceptionally clear day.

There was a reasonable view of the surrounding hills and countryside, but also the Mournes and parts of Wales. (The small part of the Welsh coast visible, probably around Holyhead is a very slight blip to the right of the Sugar Loaf.) Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/129/comment/20542/
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