Glendalough - Rockclimbing If the day is anyway fine and at weekends in particular, youll surely have your attention drawn by the colour or calls of a few climbers up on the cliffs near the mines at Glendalough. The rock is good solid mountain granite and there are upwards of 120 climbing routes on the various crags, covering a full range of difficulty. For more info see the Wicklow Rock Climbing Guide or look up mountaineering.ie for details of clubs etc. Climbers have their own names for the various crags; Twin Buttress, Upper Cliffs, Hobnail Buttress, Acorn Buttress etc. Id be surprised if there werent once local names for the bigger cliffs here. The only names that relate to this immediate area that Ive come across are Lugbarnoran and Murphys Hollow. The first was recorded by that man again, C.G.Thompson - who noted Lugburnoran and which seems to represent Log Barr na Fhuarán or the hollow of the height of the springs. The most obvious hollow in the area he describes is that lying above Twin Buttress and down which flows small streamlets. These are most visible when they freeze in severe winters, providing ice climbs. If the case, then perhaps Barr na Fhuarán or Barnoran (the height of the springs) would have been an older name for Twin Buttress. Murphys Hollow is a name known by the local hill farmers also for the hollow, above where the climbers go. Finally, the base of the scree slopes have many large granite rocks and bouldering - solving climbing problems on these rocks has become very popular. These rocks are normally free climbed with any rope or protection against a fall.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 10:10:19 +0000
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