I climbed Sugarloaf Hill on 1 September and was disappointed to see the damage that's being caused by motorcycles and there was one culprit enjoying himself by repeatedly ascending and descending the bottom section of the hill on his offensive machine. I also found a lot of tyre damage on the summit.
The initial steep pull up from the Vee carpark has thus become a real messy rake and the old boundary wall appears to have disappeared in places, especially at the summit. Twenty to thirty years ago I could shelter from a biting north wind behind the wall but its stones are now being used to build numerous cairns, as well as the increasingly popular compulsion among certain hillgoers to leave their John Hancock in the heather using the wall stones. Perhaps I'm just getting grumpy!
The picture was taken in May 2008 from the summit of Knockmealdown looking towards Sugarloaf Hill. It was a challenge trying to photograph myself in the powerful wind! Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/170/comment/3288/

Sugarloaf Hill is usually climbed from Bay Lough Car Park, S03056 09981 B, ample parking there. Cross the road and follow the wall and the eroded path all the way up, it's steep enough but you'll reach the top in 40-45 mins (or 30 mins at a brisk pace). Keep the wall to your left and once you reach the top you can go right/south-east and commit to a longer walk to Knockmoylan and Knockmealdown. The stone wall also continues on to Knockmealdown and on a clear day you can enjoy some great views of Knockmealdown if you approach it from Sugarloaf.

The summit is marked by a cairn, there is now a 2019 diary where you can log your visit. You can just about see the white plastic bag with the diary under one of the stones in the picture.

Care is needed on the way down since there are a lot of loose stones and it can be slippy after a wet spell but you would have noticed this on your way up. You can move to either side of the path where the ground is grassy but it can also be muddy.

Alternatively, you can park at the second lay-by after the hairpin bend (if coming from Clogheen), S04058 11836 C, cross the road and follow the faint path past Grubb's monument. It should take you about an hour to reach the summit. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/170/comment/20344/

The summit of Sugarloaf Hill has what looks like a ruined cairn. Stretching north from this is a narrow ridge. Visit the end of the ridge and you can get a view both down to the Vee, a road with a well known hairpin bend, and over the valley towards the Galtees. It is also possible to see Bay Lough, a small corrie lake on the north-east side of Knockaunabulloga (630m). There are few lakes in the Knockmealdowns. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/170/comment/385/

Sugarloaf is the last mountain before the Vee on the traverse. Coming from Knockmoylan it provides an attractive view and the climb from the col is approx. 120 metres. From there a descent of over 300 metres leads to the tourist car park at the Vee gap. See Knockaunabulloga to continue the traverse. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/170/comment/1879/