Tonelagee Mountain and Lough Ouler
Tonelagee Mountain sits at an elevation of 817m. Lough Ouler is on the base of Tonelaglee, which supplies the BEST viewing level over the well-known love coronary heart lake. The most effective views of Lough Ouler, Wicklow’s love coronary heart lake are from the highest of Tonelagee.
Key details about the hike
- Park here at Turlough hill
- Enable 2-3 hours up and again
- No clear markers however the path may be very nicely outlined
- Issue- 6/10
- Spotlight- Wicklow panorama and Lough Ouler love heart-shaped lake
- Mountain climbing gear important
Parking for Tonelagee & Lough Ouler Stroll
We parked our automobile in Turlough hill car park here. The automobile park is massive with a number of areas. It’s fairly hidden away from the highway, so don’t depart something worthwhile seen in your automobile.
Tonelagee from the Turlough hill automobile park
The image above exhibits the route that we took to hike to Wicklow’s love coronary heart lake. We begin the hike by strolling over the sleepers within the automobile park and on the small viewing level. After a small 360 levels twirl, we flip again towards the mountain and stroll throughout the highway.
Simply as we step off the highway, we have to cross a big drain. We simply seemed for everybody else’s crossing location and jumped throughout. Ensure to search out the proper path. We spent a while, initially looking for the footpath at first. We have now walked this path earlier than and solely discovered the trail on the descent. This made the hike a lot tougher than it ought to have been. Typically it’s not actually seen, because of the flowering heather however it’s undoubtedly price discovering.
Tonelagee Mountain
As soon as we’re on the trail, we cowl floor in a short time and inside 1 hour we attain the summit. There aren’t any markers on the path however the path may be very outstanding, if you determine it. Be ready and produce navigation tools. On the highest a part of the mountain, the trail isn’t as outlined so remember to keep oriented.
The hike up Tonelagee isn’t too steep or overly arduous however it’s straightforward to stray off beam. Keep watch over your OS map, we briefly misplaced the path whereas descending. We consulted our Maps and located the path 10 meters to the aspect.
Tonelagee mountain and Lough Ouler Map
Tonelagee lake (Wicklow’s love Coronary heart Lake)
We walked over towards Stoney High to get views of Wicklow’s love coronary heart lake. The lake is not seen from the summit of Tonelagee. When on the Cairn of Tonelagee, stroll to the left hand aspect and observe the trail till you see the well-known Wicklow lake.
Warning— There are massive cliffs close to the viewing level of the lake watch out if there’s a fog or you probably have youngsters with you.
Time to hike to Lough Ouler Wicklow Love coronary heart Lake
It took us 1 hour to ascend to the highest of Tonelagee from the Turlough hill automobile park. The hike began on a foggy day however once we reached the highest the fog began to elevate, our views weren’t nice. It’s required to stroll right down to the rear of the mountain to get a view of the lake because it’s not seen from the summit.
General, enable 2 hours half-hour on the mountain to view Wicklows Love lake coronary heart.
Optionally available Hikes after mountain climbing Tonelagee
We have now beforehand hiked St Kevin’s approach and Turlough Hill which is the right place to begin to stroll into Glendalough. You can additionally proceed your mountain hikes by strolling onto Moanbane/ Silsean.
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