Pleasant walk from Three Rock mast area. We've accessed it from Kilmashogue car park and from Ticknock car park. The latter is more direct. although much busier with mountain bikers and dog walkers etc. Recent works around the cairn at the summit of Fairy Castle have been undertaken to protect it from erosion apparently... Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/382/comment/6841/

I Know, here I am again climbing 2rock - but this time with a difference... I left my house in Dundrum, at 6pm on Saturday 03/06 walked over by Nutgrove up through Marlay Park and out on to College Road, under the M50 and up Kilmashogue Lane to the forest entrance - birds singing, lambs bleating, the odd cow enjoying the evening sun chewing the cud, I entered the forest, up the WW to the top of 2 rock - the sun was setting to the West and I was all alone - WONDERFUL skylarks sang above me, and after a quick rest, went back down to Ticknock carpark, down by Kellystown through Ballinteer and back to Dundrum - 3 1/2 hours - I'm thinking of walking to Enniskerry across the mountains and home by the road some summers day - it would be nice without ise of any transport except shanks mare!! Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/382/comment/2379/

Summit cairn with the transmission masts and Dublin in the background. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/382/comment/684/

Walking very much off track the other day on the south-facing slope of Two Rock Mountain (Fairy Castle), above Glencullen, I quite literally stumbled upon a low granite rock with a curious sculpted engraving. According to my GPS reading, it lies at O 1686 2194 A, in an area to which the OSI map gives the name of Ballybrack. At first sight, it looks somewhat like the well-known Christogram that we see in our churches, the Greek Chi-Rho symbol, but that is hardly the case. It's surrounded by a circle and seems to show the letter P crossed with a transverse line and a shorter horizontal one ending in arrowheads, pointing east and west. Could it be a boundary marker? It's almost hidden in the heather, yet it is beautifully chiselled and the work appears to have been done in situ. POSTSCRIPT: looking at the rock more closely, I have come to the conclusion it's nothing more than an engraving of our common 'No Parking' sign. So much for erudite conjecture! Planted as it is in the middle of nowhere, this sign seems to be a rather elaborate joke. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/382/comment/2876/