Mountain
Great Sugar Loaf
Kilmacanogue, County Wicklow
The quartzite cone stands over the N11. You can be up and down inside an hour from the car park.
Set apart from the Wicklow Mountains, its conical shape and broody demeanour make an instant impression.
- Where
- Kilmacanogue, County Wicklow
- Map
- Directions · OpenStreetMap
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
Nearby
The closest places on our lists, in any county.
Powerscourt WaterfallIreland's highest waterfall drops 121 metres, in parkland a few kilometres from the main estate.
Powerscourt House and GardensTerraced gardens stepping down from a Palladian house towards the Sugar Loaf, with a walled garden and a pet cemetery.
Killruddery House and GardensThe house sits under Bray Head with seventeenth century gardens, twin canals and a hedged bowling green.
Bray HeadThe hill at the south end of the promenade, with a cross on top and a path up from the town. The cliff walk round to Greystones has been closed since 2021 after landslides and stays closed for years yet.
GlendaloughGlendalough fills a glacial valley, with a round tower, a gateway and two lakes above it.What’s on nearby
Coming up within about 25km.
Today, Monday 9th November
- Mon9 NovAn Evening of Talks with Dr Linda King and the Stone TwinsNational Print Museum
- Mon9 NovCommon Threads: A Gentle Festival of WelcomeNCAD Gallery9th to 11th November
- Mon9 NovDefuse - Design for Use 2026The Sugar Club
- Mon9 NovIreland in the 80s: The Full Picture | Media, TV and RadioNational Library of Ireland · Dublin City
- Mon9 NovLemn Sissay - Let the Light Pour In LIVEO'Reilly Theatre
More in Wicklow
Wicklow Mountains National ParkNational park · LaraghOver 20,000 hectares of blanket bog, heath and upland woodland across the middle of the county.
Lough TayLake · RoundwoodThe lake is dark with a white sand beach at one end of it, seen from a pull in on the Sally Gap road.
Mount Usher GardensGarden · AshfordTwenty acres along the Vartry river, planted informally in the wild garden style.
Sally GapViewpoint · RoundwoodA crossroads at five hundred metres on the old Military Road, with open bog in every direction from it.
Russborough HouseHouse and gardens · BlessingtonA long Palladian house above the Blessington lakes, holding the Beit art collection.
Avondale House and Forest ParkHouse and gardens · RathdrumCharles Stewart Parnell's home, in five hundred acres of forest with a treetop walk and a slide in the grounds.
Wicklow GaolMuseum · Wicklow townThe eighteenth century county gaol on the hill above the town is open as a museum.
Brittas BayBeach · Co. WicklowFive kilometres of sand behind a dune system, and the main beach on the Wicklow coast.