[jeni]

am very new to this forum ( be patient ) but i liked this, and ive always wanted to contribute

[treecreeper]

often wondered about the sugar loaf actually, like the image!
think i read that it wasnt a volcano but cannot remember!

[dazftw]

Are you sure that's not smoke coming from a building?

[jeni]

Originally Posted by dazftw

Are you sure that's not smoke coming from a building?

just a cloud i think was driving down the m11 n took the pic

[dazftw]

Never mind.. For some reason when I looked at that picture it didn't seem like Ireland and you said volcano.. Got me very confused

[jeni]

clearly just a cloud at right time

[spooky donkey]

nice one jen. I think it could blow any minute

Ill try get that shot myself on my next trip to wex, assuming my family ever gets home

[User Friendly]

where is this?

[Rainbowsend]

Kilmacanoge Co Wicklow.

[DaireQuinlan]

Though it's no volcano :-) I used to imagine it was when I was growing up around Kilmacanogue, but, along with the little sugarloaf, it's quartzite IIRC, metamorphic, while most of the rest of the wicklow mountains are granite which is igneous. There is a sugarloaf in cork which is the remains of a volcano though I think.

[User Friendly]

Originally Posted by Rainbowsend

Kilmacanoge Co Wicklow.

cheers Rainbow,

there is a better known sugarloaf mountain in Rio

[Searchers]

In fact I think that is a lesser known Sugarloaf!

[User Friendly]

Originally Posted by Searchers

In fact I think that is a lesser known Sugarloaf!

somehow i doubt it moonraker? james bond? cable car scene with jaws?

[FueledByAisling]

Originally Posted by treecreeper

often wondered about the sugar loaf actually, like the image!
think i read that it wasnt a volcano but cannot remember!

I'm pretty sure it was! A lot of our mountains are results of the American/Eurasian plates colliding billions of years ago. It's mainly Quartzite rock I think so therefore it was a result of some form of volcanic/tectonic activity!

Due to facing many more years of weathering and erosion though the mountain which was once the size of the Alps if not bigger has sadly reduced severely in height over the past few centuries.