Mount Leinster (Stua Laighean)

The highest peak of the Blackstairs Mountains, rising on the Carlow-Wexford border.

Mount Leinster (Stua Laighean) is the highest of the Blackstairs Mountains, standing on the border of counties Carlow and Wexford. From its summit, crowned by a tall television mast, the view stretches across much of the south-east of Ireland.

Its slopes are popular with walkers, hang-gliders and those following the South Leinster Way.

At a glance

• The highest peak of the Blackstairs Mountains.
• Rises on the Carlow-Wexford border.
• Offers sweeping views across south-east Ireland.

In County Carlow

Mount Leinster is in County Carlow, Ceatharlach in Irish, which means “four lakes”.

More in Carlow

• The River Barrow (An Bhearú): One of the Three Sisters, winding through Carlow's fertile valley.

Other places of this kind

• Carrauntoohil (Corrán Tuathail): The highest mountain in Ireland, standing at 1,038.6 meters.
• Croagh Patrick (Cruach Phádraig): Ireland's holy mountain, climbed by pilgrims for over a thousand years in honour of St Patrick.
• Slieve League (Sliabh Liag): Among the highest sea cliffs in Europe, rising almost 600 metres from the Atlantic in County Donegal.
• Benbulben (Binn Ghulbain): The dramatic flat-topped 'table mountain' of County Sligo, at the heart of Yeats Country and Irish legend.
• The Mourne Mountains (Beanna Boirche): A range of granite peaks in County Down, and the inspiration for songs and for the land of Narnia.
• The Sperrin Mountains (Sléibhte Speirín): A sweeping range of rounded hills across counties Tyrone and Derry, and one of the largest upland areas in Ireland.

The Irish name

The Irish form of Mount Leinster is Stua Laighean. You can hear it spoken, and take apart names like it, in the Placename Explorer. The authoritative record for any Irish place-name is logainm.ie.