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Is Kilmashogue mountain (Dublin) mainly private?

  • 11-04-2011 3:00pm
    #1
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,788 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    In my complete naivety I always though Kilmashogue was state/coillte land but after buying a eastwestmapping.ie map of Dublin see it's private land. I quite fancy a trip to the summit and used to know the mountain quite well as we did some (legal) wood cutting up there in the 80s.

    Anyone know if you'd get away with a quick trip to the summit and down? Reading on http://www.megalithicireland.com/Kilmashogue.htm I take it as long as they're not working up there then nobody will care?


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  • #2
    cameramonkey
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    ive been up to the top loads of times and never been stopped. you would be up and down quickly anyway. great views down onto to the city and all the way out into kildare and up north. very nice walk from there and then up to the two rock.


  • #3
    username123
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    Ive been up there recently - Coillte do own at least a section of it. There is a forest recreation area. Its no problem to go up - the wedge tomb is not far from the carpark at all.


  • #4
    dogmatix
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    There are a number of rights of way across the mountain (and one going to the top – according to the county council land maps). One of these rights of way connects the top of Kilmashogue lane to the wicklow way and I’ve walked this one a few times

    However these rights of way are “problematic” legally and the DLRCOCO have had a few court cases down the years to try and protect them but not often with positive results. Still, at least the county council does bother to publish these rights of way, contested or not – unlike some councils.

    To view the map, check out the current country development plan at http://www.dlrcoco.ie/aboutus/councildepartments/planning/findit/developmentplan2010-2016/countydevelopmentplan2010-2016maps/

    Kilmashouge is map 8 – but you might have to root around the website to eventually find it.

    I have the maps downloaded somewhere on my PC – I’ll try and upload the relevant one over the next day or so.


  • #5
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,788 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Thanks lads, much appreciated.

    That DLRCoCo page has a link on the site which shows a map with the rights of way in footprints when you zoom in enough and it looks good (don't know what the different coloured footprints mean though?)

    I'll take some snaps when I conquer the summit ;)


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