The Great Sugar Loaf

We drove south of Dublin about 30 minutes to a town called Kilmacanoge where we left our car to start our hike. We had trail maps and books and off we went. The trails are not marked with signs at all, and it looked as though it hadn't been travelled in quite a while, so it was a bit difficult to locate and stay on the trail. We were hiking up to the summit (500m), so when we lost the trail we just went up, and up, and up. The bracken fern was over 5 ft high so I couldn't see where we were going, so Craig blazed the trail. Gorse bushes were everywhere and their thorns are very, very sharp. At times we wondered if we were enjoying ourselves, but luckily it was a gorgeous sunny day and the views (once we got past the bracken ferns) were spectacular!