Table Mountain, Mountain summit in County Wicklow, Ireland.
Table Mountain is a 702-metre peak in the southern Wicklow Mountains, at the apex of a horseshoe-shaped boggy massif shared with Camenabologue and Conavalla above the Glenmalure valley. Its prominence is only 16 metres, and it ranks 110th on the Vandeleur-Lynam Irish scale.
The peak served as a known landmark in the region until a tragic accident in 1957. A training aircraft went down during heavy fog conditions on the mountainside, resulting in the pilot's death.
The name comes from the English word for a flat-topped table, not from Irish: no recorded Irish name exists, and the peak has no link to Table Mountain in Cape Town. The summit sits at the apex of a boggy horseshoe-shaped massif shared with Camenabologue and Conavalla above Glenmalure.
Several hiking trails connect this peak to neighboring summits and offer routes for different experience levels. These paths are accessible throughout the year, though weather conditions should always be considered.
The 1957 crash of a Percival Provost training plane left aircraft parts scattered over 80 yards of the slope; forestry workers on nearby Conavalla heard the explosion and raised the alarm. Some wreckage was still on the mountain as of 2010.
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