Glenmalure
Sign in to saveGlenmalure () is a 20-kilometre long U-shaped glacial valley in the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland. Glenmalure is an important base for climbing in the Wicklow mountains, and particularly accessing the massif of Lugnaquilla, and contains one of the earliest An Óige youth hostels in Ireland. Glenmalure was also an important historical area and the site of the Battle of Glenmalure in 1580, as well as various events in the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- U-shaped valley
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Wicklow
- Body of water
- River Avonbeg
- Image
- Glenmalure Valley, Wicklow.jpg
- Height
- 350
- Width
- 800
- Length
- 20
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- Commons category
- Glenmalure, County Wicklow
- mountain range
- Wicklow Mountains
- origin of the watercourse
- River Avonbeg
- historic county
- County Wicklow
- native label
- Gleann Molúra
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Glenmalure () is a 20-kilometre long U-shaped glacial valley in the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland. Glenmalure is an important base for climbing in the Wicklow mountains, and particularly accessing the massif of Lugnaquilla, and contains one of the earliest An Óige youth hostels in Ireland. Glenmalure was also an important historical area and the site of the Battle of Glenmalure in 1580, as well as various events in the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
==Geography== Glenmalure is a 20-kilometre long glacial valley in the southern sector of the Wicklow Mountains and is one of the longest glacial valleys in Ireland. A number of adjoining hanging valleys, most notably the Fraughan Rock Glen, feed into Glenmalure valley, which was formed by feeder glaciers in the last ice age.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Glenmalure” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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