A pictorial and descriptive guide to Dublin and the Wicklow tours (1919) (14764504444)
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Identifier: pictorialdescrip19ward (find matches)
Title: A pictorial and descriptive guide to Dublin and the Wicklow tours ..
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Ward, Lock and Company, ltd
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Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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30 GREAT AND LITTLE SUGAR LOAF 129 (p. i33)andGlendalough (p. 140), pastCalary Bog and moor-land, and is known as the Long Hill. By this route one candrive to within half an hours walk of the summit of the SugarLoaf, turning off the road to the left by a cottage near the topof the Long Hill. The Ascent of the Sugar Loaf, which is well worth making,is quite easy, except perhaps the last little bit, which issteep and stony. The hill is 1,659 feet high, and the topis, as it looks, only a cone. The view is extensive ; thewooded Glen of the Downs lies just below, and, beyond.Grey stones and the sea. Northwards are the MourneMountains ; southwards Wicklow Head ; and inland theRoundwood Reservoir and many of the Wicklow moun-tains. The ascent may also be made by following any ofthe zigzag paths that may be seen leading up the hillsideon the right-hand of the Rocky Valley, thence acrossheather and bracken. This is the pleasantest way forwalkers ; the ascent takes about an hour. Another wayis