Sugarloaf Mountain () is one of the

Caha Mountains The Caha Mountains (''An Cheacha'' in Irish) are a range of low sandstone mountains on the Beara peninsula in south-west County Cork, Ireland. The highest peak is Hungry Hill, at . Other notable peaks include Knocknagree, Sugarloaf Mountain ...

, southwest of

Glengarriff Glengarriff () is a village of approximately 200 people on the N71 national secondary road in the Beara Peninsula of County Cork, Ireland. Known internationally as a tourism venue, it has a number of natural attractions. It sits at the northe ...

County Cork County Cork () is the largest and the southernmost Counties of Ireland, county of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, named after the city of Cork (city), Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster ...

Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

. It is a pointed mountain with a height of . The English name refers to the mountain's likeness to a

sugarloaf A sugarloaf was the usual form in which refined sugar was produced and sold until the late 19th century, when granulated and cube sugars were introduced. A tall cone with a rounded top was the end product of a process in which dark molasses, ...

. The Irish name ''Gabhal Mhór'' means "big fork", with the lower neighbouring peak called ''Gabhal Bheag'', "little fork", or Gowlbeg Mountain. These names seem to have developed from ''Sliabh na Gaibhle'', "mountain of the fork", likely referring to a confluence of streams. The anglicised form Slieve Gowl is found in several 19th-century sources.

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{{Mountains and hills of County Cork Mountains and hills of County Cork Beara peninsula