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Mullaghcleevaun · 849 m · 9.8 km SSW

Mountain · Wicklow Mountains · County Wicklow

Kippure

757 m2,484 ft

Easiest route: 3.2 km+296 m · about 1.5 h · T2
Prominence: 263 m861 ft
Isolation: 8.8 km
Tonight: 2°CRain · Wind 20 km/h SW

Kippure is a 757 m (2,484 ft) mountain in the Wicklow Mountains, County Wicklow, Ireland.

All facts

Elevation: 757 m · 2,484 ft
Nearest higher peak: Mullaghcleevaun (849 m)
Range: Wicklow Mountains
Region: County Wicklow, Ireland
Protected area: Wicklow Mountains National Park
Spanish name: Cipiúr
Coordinates: 53.1779° N, 6.3315° W

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Route

How to get to the top of Kippure

2 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

Easiest route: from Road end, 2.7 km NNE of Kippure

Distance: 3.2 kmone way
Climb: +296 m−6 m (971 ft up)
Time up: about 1.5 h
Difficulty: T2Mountain trail, sure footing needed

Kippure elevation profile

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Other routes 1

Road end, 4.8 km W of Kippure6.2 km · +496 m · about 2.5 h
Grade not mappedGPX KML

Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

Kippure 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Kippure terrain and contours

20 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 100 mShowing west → east through the summit

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.

Weather

Kippure weather

Tonight · Rain · 2°C (36°F) · 1.2 mm · Wind 20 km/h SW

Kippure forecast for the summit, about 757 m.

Tonight2°1.2 mm20 km/h SW
Today3°10°11.4 mm46 km/h W
Sun3°6°2.5 mm44 km/h W
Mon5°12°9.3 mm36 km/h S
Tue5°6°1.4 mm33 km/h W
Wed4°9°0.4 mm26 km/h W
Thu4°8°2.6 mm27 km/h S
Fri6°9°15.5 mm23 km/h SE
Sat1°6°0.5 mm17 km/h W
Sun-1°3°0.2 mm19 km/h NW

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:18 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Kippure

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Kippure, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest parking
2.7 km E
+2 more within 3.6 km
Directions Map

All mapped places 3

Place	Distance
Parking	2.7 km E
Parking	2.7 km SSW
Parking	3.6 km SSE

Slope

How steep is the route to Kippure?

The easiest mapped route, 3.2 km from 455 m to 757 m. Steepest stretch: 13°.

0 km · 455 m3.2 km · 757 m

0–15°3.2 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 40 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 89.0%Trees 9.9%Water 1.0%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Where it sits

Where Kippure sits

Ranked in 1

#15 Treks and hikes in Ireland

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

LuggalaPeak · 595 m8.7 km SSE

Kippure downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGKippure satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2024-09-06.

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

GPXKippure GPX / KML route downloadIn the route section. Mapped route for GPS apps and Google Earth, under the ODbL.

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 749 m at the summit; the official height is 757 m.

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	757 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	749 m	-8 m
Copernicus GLO-90	746 m	-11 m

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024 (scene 2024-09-06)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Accuracy comparison, Panorama: Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Kippure

Easiest route: from Road end, 2.7 km NNE of Kippure

West → east through the summit

Nearest parking

Data sources