Little Sugar Loaf

{{about|the hill in East Wicklow|its larger neighbour|Great Sugar Loaf|the similarly named mountain in West Wicklow|Sugarloaf (West Wicklow)|other mountains of the same name|List of mountains named Sugarloaf}}

{{short description|Mountain in County Wicklow, Ireland}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}}

{{Use Irish English|date=November 2020}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Little Sugar Loaf

| native_name = {{Native name|ga|Giolspar|paren=omit}}

| translation = Giltspur

| language = Irish

| photo = IMG LittleSugarLoaf5416r.jpg

| photo_caption = Little Sugar Loaf, from the east

| elevation_m = 342

| elevation_ref = {{cite web|url=http://mountainviews.ie/summit/909/|title=Little Sugar Loaf|publisher=MountainViews Online Database|accessdate=11 July 2019}}

| prominence_m = 247

| prominence_ref =

| listing = Marilyn

| location = County Wicklow, Ireland

| map = Ireland

| map_caption = Ireland

| range = Wicklow Mountains

| coordinates = {{coord|53|10|8|N|6|7|12|W|region:IE_type:mountain_scale:30000}}

| topo = OSi Discovery 56

| grid_ref_Ireland = O2606514480

| type = Quartzite Bedrock

| age =

| easiest_route =

}}

Little Sugar Loaf ({{irish place name|Giolspar|Giltspur}}){{cite web|url= http://www.mountaineering.ie/_files/Paul%20Tempan%20Irish%20Mountain%20Placenames%20-%20Feb%202012.pdf|title=Irish Hill and Mountain Names|publisher=MountainViews.ie|author=Paul Tempan|date=February 2012}} is a {{convert|342|m|ft}} hill in the far northeastern sector of the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland. It does not have the elevation to rank on Arderin, Hewitt, or Vandeleur-Lynam scales,{{cite web|url=https://mountainviews.ie/lists/arderin/|title=Arderins: Irish mountains of 500+m with a prominence of 30m|publisher=MountainViews Online Database|author=Simon Stewart|date=October 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://mountainviews.ie/lists/vandeleur-lynam/?PHPSESSID=6lpes93lcdlq890dprmqqu4dn6|title=Vandeleur-Lynams: Irish mountains of 600+m with a prominence of 15m|publisher=MountainViews Online Database|author=Simon Stewart|date=October 2018}}Mountainviews, (September 2013), "A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins", Collins Books, Cork, {{ISBN|978-1-84889-164-7}} however, its prominence of {{convert|247|m|ft}} ranks it as a Marilyn.{{cite book | last1 = Fairbairn | first1 = Helen | title = Dublin & Wicklow: A Walking Guide | publisher = Collins Press | isbn = 978-1848892019 | year = 2014}}

The Little Sugar Loaf is situated northeastwards from the Great Sugar Loaf, but separated by the N11 dual carriageway. The northern side of Little Sugar Loaf directly overlooks the town of Bray; the eastern side (see photo) looks across the R761 between Bray and Greystones to the western slope of Bray Head. Little Sugar Loaf has a distinctive profile of a rocky double summit.{{cite book | last1 = Dillion | first1 = Paddy | title = The Mountains of Ireland: A Guide to Walking the Summits | publisher = Cicerone | isbn = 978-1852841102 | year = 1993 |quote=Walk 2: Tonduff and Kippure}} Like the Great Sugar Loaf, it consists of Cambrian Period quartzite bedrock.{{cite web|url=http://www.mountaineering.ie/_files/20166913562_6c5b8a60.pdf|title=The Great Sugar Loaf: Geological Context|date=May 2016|author=Sile Daly|publisher=Irish Mountaineering Club|accessdate=11 July 2019|quote=Popularly mistaken for a volcano, its metamorphism has rendered the rock extremely erosion-resistant and the mountain owes its shape to the weathering characteristics of quartzite.}}

Irish academic Paul Tempan notes that the Irish name Giolspar is likely a translation of the English "gilt spur", based on a record of a 12th-century transaction by Diarmait Mac Murchada of land in the area which involved the payment of a pair of "gilt spurs" to him and his heirs on an annual basis.