Wicklow Mountains Excursion

From Rathfarnham, just outside Dublin, the road leads south, climbing steadily. Ahead, to the right, can be seen Kippure, 2,517ft/767m, with its television tower; to the rear there is a fine view of Dublin. Soon afterwards the road to Enniskerry diverges to the left. The R115 then continues south, past two small lakes and over a boggy plateau, the source of Dublin's River Liffey and of the Dargle, which flows east and lower down the valley forms the spectacular Powerscourt Waterfall.

At the Sally Gap (1,657ft/505m), the watershed, the R115 joins the R759, which winds its way southwards over bare moorland, crossing a number of streams flowing down from the hills on the right of the road, Gravate (2,396ft/730m), Duff Hill (2,406ft/733m) and Mullaghcleevaun (2,839ft/865m). It then descends the rugged valley of Glenmacnass, passing a waterfall (best seen from the other side of the valley), to Laragh, at the meeting place of a number of valleys (and the roads and rivers which follow them).