Map Update Queries
Map Update QueriesI’m currently making a round of updates to our mapping. Have a couple of queries which users may be able to shed light on. These are in relation…
Lugnaquilla & Glendalough Map
JB Malone and the Evening Herald
JB Malone and the Evening Herald (John Bernard) JB Malone (1913-89) was a prolific writer and promoter of hillwalking from the 1930s through to the 1970s. He did much for…
Coms Coums Corries & Kyas
Coms Coums Corries & Kyas Those who walk the Irish uplands will be familiar with bowl like lakes nestling into the slopes under the peaks. Often backed by cliffs, the…
Wicklow Way Update
Wicklow Way Update Map update for Wicklow 1:25,000 print maps & Wicklow Way Map Guides. Thanks to Aaron Byrne of Wicklow Partnership for supplying details of a recent re route…
Black Mountain Donard
Black Mountain or Sugarloaf near Donard, Wicklow When looking into placenames, it often pays to look at the ground - as placenames often relate to the physical appearance or nature…
Cillín
Cillín Of the various landmarks to be found in rural Ireland, surely one of the most poignant is the Cillín - literally the little church, but a name usually associated…
Wicklow West
Art O’Neill
Art O'Neill Many people will recognise Art's Cross pictured on the cover of our map, Wicklow Mountains West. The cross itself was erected in 1932 to commemorate the escape of…
Pass to Glenmalure and the Asbawn
Pass to Glenmalure and the Asbawn Glanreemore and Glanreebeg are part of an old journey to Glenmalure from the Kings River valley. Nowadays people would drive around via Laragh but…
Glanreemore & Glanreebeg
Glanreemore & Glanreebeg Liam Price considered that the name Unry was preserved in the name Glanree, which is one of the subsidiary valleys draining into the Kings River. This could…
Kings River
Kings River, West Wicklow The Kings River is a major tributary of the Liffey. It rises up near Wicklow Gap and flows down a broad valley terminating nowadays into Poulaphuca…