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Little Sugar Loaf

342 m1,122 ft

Prominence: 234 m768 ft
Isolation: 2.3 km
Tonight: 6°CCloudy · Wind 22 km/h SW

Little Sugar Loaf is a 342 m (1,122 ft) mountain in the Wicklow Mountains, County Wicklow, Ireland.

All facts

Elevation: 342 m · 1,122 ft
Nearest higher peak: Great Sugar Loaf (501 m)
Range: Wicklow Mountains
Region: County Wicklow, Ireland
Coordinates: 53.1660° N, 6.1152° W

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3D map

Little Sugar Loaf 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Little Sugar Loaf terrain and contours

20 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. 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

Little Sugar Loaf elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Little Sugar Loaf weather

Tonight · Cloudy · 6°C (43°F) · 0.9 mm · Wind 22 km/h SW

Little Sugar Loaf forecast for the summit, about 342 m.

Tonight6°0.9 mm22 km/h SW
Today6°13°11.0 mm58 km/h S
Sun6°10°2.2 mm54 km/h W
Mon9°15°7.3 mm47 km/h S
Tue9°9°0.8 mm35 km/h W
Wed6°13°0.1 mm20 km/h SW
Thu7°11°2.3 mm32 km/h S
Fri9°11°17.7 mm26 km/h SE
Sat5°9°0.2 mm23 km/h W
Sun3°6°0.1 mm24 km/h W

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Little Sugar Loaf

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

Nearest parking
0.6 km SW
+2 more within 1.5 km
Directions Map
Nearest trailhead
Dublin Mountains Way
7.2 km N
Directions Map

All mapped places 4

Place	Distance
Parking	0.6 km SW
Parking	1.5 km W
Parking	1.5 km WNW
Dublin Mountains WayTrailhead	7.2 km N

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mostly gentle: 86% of the view is under 15°.

Gentle, 0–15°

86.2%

Moderate, 15–30°

12.4%

Steep, 30–45°

1.4%

Cliffs, 45° and over

0.0%

Steeper than 30°: 1.4% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 495 m low point 0 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Grassland 45.7%Trees 35.2%Built-up 9.2%Cropland 5.4%Water 4.2%

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

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Little Sugar Loaf summit.

Summit list 5

1Kindlestown Hill210 m 2.1 km SSE
2Bray Head Hill239 m 2.5 km ENE
3Sugarlump323 m 2.7 km W
4Great Sugarloaf501 m 2.7 km WSW
5Carrigoona242 m 2.8 km WNW

Where it sits

Where Little Sugar Loaf sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Two RockPeak · 536 m12 km NW

Little Sugar Loaf downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

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

3D printing & 3D apps

GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 335 m at the summit; the official height is 342 m.

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

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	342 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	335 m	-7 m
Copernicus GLO-90	326 m	-16 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: 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 · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Little Sugar Loaf

West → east through the summit

Nearest parking

Nearest trailhead

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