Stony Top Lough Dan
Charles Thompson Day 5
The last hillwalking photo from Charles Thompson is a panorama taken from Stony Top or Cleevaun East looking east towards Lough Dan & Cloghoge Mountain. Note the almost complete absence…
Wicklow West Map
Mullaghcleevaun 1915, Maulin
Charles Thompson Day 3
Charles Thompson group on the summit of Mullaghcleevaun on 25th April 1915. It’s sobering to reflect that elsewhere in Europe on that day, Irishmen from the Dublin & Munster Fusiliers…
Dublin Wicklow Map News
Dublin Wicklow Map News
Our three new 1:25000 scale maps for the northern Dublin & Wicklow mountains have gone to proofing stage with the printer. These are prepared to our 25Series standard with 5…
Rundale in Wicklow
Rundale in Wicklow
Rundale was a system of land management between farmers that seems to have common enough in the west of Ireland in early/ mid 19th century. It predated the enclosure of…
Black Banks
Black Banks
I’ve written previously about the name ‘Table Mountain’ in the Wicklow hills and reported that locally this area is still known as the Black Banks. That the name Table Mountain…
Coronation Plantation
Coronation Plantation
The scattered Scots Pine and Oak trees of Coronation Plantation near Sally Gap in Wicklow are the subject of many a photograph. Planted in 1831 by the Downshire Estate, the…
Flooded Valley
Flooded Valley
I’m currently recompiling map detail around Poulaphuca Reservoir or Blessington Lakes. This large body of water was created in 1940, following construction of a dam and hydro electric scheme at…
Lacken Mass Path
Lacken Mass Path update Customers and users of our Wicklow Mountains West map might like to take note of a useful update at Lacken, Co.Wicklow. The local community in the…
Clahoppeen
Clahoppeen
Clahoppeen This is the Clahoppeen rock, it features a few times in the notes left by Liam Price and must have been a notable landmark for local hill farmers in…
Con Costello
Con Costello
Con Costello 1929-2006 Placenames on EastWest Mapping maps come from multiple sources. The best information is collected directly from those who are ‘seed & breed’ of the district, who’ve grown…