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The view you can see is of Croghan Mountain.
The summit of Croghan lies on the border between Counties Wexford and Wicklow and is the highest point on that border. It is sometimes referred to as Croghan Kinsella Mountain after a (historically) powerful local family. This name may be to distinguish it from Croaghanmoira. In Irish the name is Cruachán Uí Chinnsealaigh and literally translated this means little stack of the Kinsella family.
Croghan has a height of 606 metres and is an isolated peak giving a different view from the rest of the Wicklow mountains. It's summit can easily be reached by using forestry tracks and is identifiable by a group of rocks and a trig pillar. The River Bann rises from its southern slopes.
Croghan was also the site of Ireland's only gold rush when a nugget was found in river gravel on the mountain in 1795. The gold is now gone, but many poor people benefited from it at the time as the gold was retrieved by mainly local people. Three thousand ounces are known to have been found.
Croghan defines the southern limit of the Wicklow Mountains. Click on the picture below to view the Croghan google satellite map.
The Wicklow Mountains
The Wicklow Mountains (Irish: Sléibhte Chill Mhantáin; including at the northern end the Dublin Mountains) are a range of mountains in the southeast of Ireland. They run in a north-south direction from south County Dublin across County Wicklow and into County Wexford. Lugnaquilla is the highest peak in the range at 925 m (3035 ft), Mullaghcleevaun at 847 m (2,780 ft) is the second highest, while the summit of Kippure is the highest point in County Dublin, at 757 m (2,484 ft). Croghan ranks 32nd in the list of 62 peaks over 300 metres.
The whole area is much frequented, especially at weekends, by Dubliners, as the region offers multiple choices of recreation, ranging from fishing to rafting to hill walking. Also in its midst lies the monastic settlement of Glendalough, believed to have been founded by St. Kevin, and now a popular tourist attraction; as well as Powerscourt Waterfall, the highest waterfall in Ireland. Below is a picture of the upper lake at Glendalough.
