Placenames & Heritage

Croghan

Croghan Croghan is a prominent pointy hill, just inland from Arklow in Co.Wicklow. Named from the Irish ‘Cruachán’ – the little stack or reek. That’s what it’d be called locally anyway,…

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Dúchruach

DúchruachPictured here is the rocky wild summit of Dúchruach with two of it’s several locháns.  It lies less than three kilometres as the crow flies from the well known Diamond…

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