The R756 road is a regional road in

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running west–east from

Dunlavin Dunlavin () is a village in County Wicklow, Ireland, situated about south-west of Dublin. It is centred on the junction of the R412 road (Ireland), R412 and R756 road (Ireland), R756 Regional road (Ireland), regional roads. It was founded aro ...

to Laragh. Its entire length is within

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crossing east–west through the '' Wicklow Gap'' ().

Route

From Dunlavin it heads northeast, intersecting the N81

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near the village of

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. It then heads southeast, rising through the West

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to the Wicklow Gap, the highest point on the road at 470m, before descending through the ''Glandasan Valley''. In this valley it passes through old mine-works to its junction with the R757 in the outskirts of

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and continues for a further 2 km to Laragh, where it terminates at a junction with the R755 and the ''

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''. The section from Hollywood to Laragh is known as the ''Wicklow Gap Road'' ( and it is one of only two routes crossing the Wicklow Mountains from east to west, the other being the road through the ''

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'' () in North Wicklow. The road through the Wicklow Gap is both an important regional route and a very popular tourist route as it travels through some spectacular scenery. The Wicklow Gap, between Tonelagee Mountain and Camaderry Mountain is where the entrance to

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electricity 'storage' hydro-plant it situated. During periods of off-peak electricity demand, water is pumped up from ''Lough Nathanagan'', a corrie lake at the foot of Turlough Hill to an artificial reservoir at the top; when electricity demand is high, the water falls back through turbines inside the mountain to produce hydro-electric power for the national grid. On a clear day from the summit of the Wicklow Gap (at Turlough Hill carpark) it is possible to look eastwards across the

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and view the mountains of

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References

Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) Order 2006
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