War Hill 684.8m mountain, Wicklow NE: Djouce Ireland at MountainViews.ie

Cookies. This website uses cookies, which are small text files that the website puts on your computer to facilitate operation. Cookies help us provide a better service to you. They are used to track general user traffic information and to help the website function properly.

Click to hide this notice for 30 days.

Welcome to MountainViews
If you want to use the website often please enrol (quick and free) at top right.

Overview

Detail

Legend

Zoom: ??

For more map options click on any overview map area or any detail map feature.

Video display

Wicklow Area NE: Djouce Subarea

Place count in area: 115, OSI/LPS Maps: 28B, 55, 56, 61, 62, AWW, EW-DM, EW-LG, EW-WE, EW-WS
Highest place:

Lugnaquilla, 924.7m
Maximum height for area: 924.7 metres, Maximum prominence for area: 905 metres,

Places in area Wicklow:
Cen: Glendalough North:

Brockagh Mountain 556.9m

Brockagh Mountain NW Top 549.5m

Brockagh Mountain SE Top 471.7m

Camaderry Mountain 698.6m

Camaderry South East Top 677.3m

Conavalla 734m

Tomaneena 682.4m
Cen: Glendalough South:

Carriglineen Mountain 456.6m

Cullentragh Mountain 510m

Derrybawn Mountain 476.1m

Kirikee Mountain 474.5m

Lugduff 653.2m

Lugduff SE Top 638m

Mullacor 660.7m

Trooperstown Hill 430m
N Cen: Tonelagee:

Tonelagee South-East Top 545.8m
NE: Bray & Kilmacanogue:

Bray Head Hill 238.9m

Carrigoona Commons East 242m

Downs Hill 372.9m

Great Sugar Loaf 501.2m

Little Sugar Loaf 342.4m
NE: Djouce:

Tonduff East Top 593m

War Hill 684.8m

White Hill 631.1m
NE: Fancy:

Ballinafunshoge 480m

Kanturk 527.4m

Knocknacloghoge 532.4m

Luggala 593.3m

Robber's Pass Hill 508.9m

Scarr 640m

Scarr North-West Top 559.8m

Sleamaine 430m
NE: Vartry:

Ballinacorbeg 336m

Ballycurry 301m

Dunranhill 342m

Mount Kennedy 365.9m
NW: Blessington:

Carrigleitrim 408m

Lugnagun 446.2m

Slieveroe 332m

Sorrel Hill 599.5m
NW: Mullaghcleevaun:

Mullaghcleevaun 846.7m

Mullaghcleevaun East Top 796m

Silsean 698m
S: Aughrim Hills:

Cushbawn 400m

Killeagh 249m

Moneyteige North 427m

Preban Hill 389m
S: Croaghanmoira:

Ballinacor Mountain 529.3m

Ballycurragh Hill 536m

Ballyteige 447m

Carrickashane Mountain 508m

Croaghanmoira 662.3m

Croaghanmoira North Top 579.5m

Fananierin 426m

Slieve Maan 547.8m

Slieve Maan North Top 546.1m
S: Croghan Kinsella:

Annagh Hill 454m

Croghan Kinsella 606m

Croghan Kinsella East Top 562.1m

Slievefoore 414m
S: Shillelagh Hills:

Lakeen 357m

Monaughrim 206m

Seskin 344m

Stookeen 420m
S: Tinahely Hills:

Ballycumber Hill 431m

Eagle Hill 296m

Muskeagh Hill 397m
SE: Wicklow South East:

Ballinastraw 284m

Ballyguile Hill 188m

Barranisky 280m

Carrick Mountain 381m

Collon Hill 238m

Kilnamanagh Hill 217m

Westaston Hill 270m
W: Baltinglass:

Ballyhook Hill 288m

Baltinglass Hill 382m

Keadeen Mountain 653m

Spinans Hill 409m

Spinans Hill SE Top 400m

Tinoran Hill 312m
W: Cen Lugnaquilla:

Ballineddan Mountain 652m

Benleagh 689m

Camenabologue 758m

Camenabologue SE Top 663m

Cloghernagh 800m

Corrigasleggaun 794.6m

Lugnaquilla 924.7m

Slievemaan 759m
W: Donard:

Table Mountain 701.7m

Table Mountain West Top 563m

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.

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
Place visited by 707 members. Recently by: johncusack, Hillwalker65, chelman7, Taisce, Barrington1978, padstowe, sliabhdunner, dodser, 500plusclub, cfennelly, adgrenna, Tomaslj, LauraG, Beti13, tryfan
I have visited this place: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.)

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.
Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/129/

COMMENTS for War Hill (Cnoc an Bharda)

Follow this place's comments

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))

MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain War Hill (<i>Cnoc an Bharda</i>) in area Wicklow, Ireland

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/

Not much to say about War Hill, but it makes a us .. by csd (Show all for War Hill (Cnoc an Bharda))

From Luggala did Kubla Khan two stately pleasure .. by CaptainVertigo (Show all for War Hill (Cnoc an Bharda))

Almost umbilical...A Navan Hill Walker tanks up o .. by CaptainVertigo (Show all for War Hill (Cnoc an Bharda))

COMMENTS for War Hill (Cnoc an Bharda)

(End of comment section for War Hill (Cnoc an Bharda).)

		Some mapping: Open Street Map (Various variations used.)	British summit data courtesy: Database of British & Irish Hills (Creative Commons Licence)
MountainViews.ie, a Hill-walking Website for the island of Ireland. 2100 Summiteers, 1400 Contributors, Monthly Newsletter since 2007

Lake District: Hartsop Round

Slieve Donard: Ulster’s highest – a boggy, well-trodden, rounded seaside peak.

Agnew's Hill: Nice little climb

Stob Coire Cath na Sine: View west along the ridge from summit

Douglas Top: Good views from so-so top.

Lake District: Raven Crag

Douglas Top: Simple, rather bleak little top

Galtymore: Steep, airy and grassy highpoint of a long east-west ridge

Crockalough: Easy enough climb to nondescript summit.

Croaghan: Straightforward trail to summit.

Lake District: Northern Fells

Ben Dash: Take a dash off the track to the Ben of the same name!