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County Wicklow

Upper Lake

An Loch Uachtair

Upper Lake covers 35 ha with 3.3 km of shore in County Wicklow, 1.9 km east of Glendalough.

Getting to the water

A public road or path on the map comes within 6 m of the shore, along about 1.6 km of it, and there is one more stretch like it elsewhere on the shore. That is what the map contains. It is not a statement that the public may walk there, because OpenStreetMap does not record permission, and nobody has checked this lake against its owner.

35 ha
of water
3.3 km
of shore
2
stretches of shore a way reaches
4
viewpoints within 2.5 km
Area
35 ha measured from the mapped outline
Shore
3.3 km around the outline
Greatest depth
30 m Wikidata
Height
130 m above sea level Wikidata
County
County Wicklow
In Irish
An Loch Uachtair
Public access
A public way reaches the shoreMeasured from the map, not from a statement of permission
On the map
OpenStreetMap record
Upper Lake, County Wicklow
Upper Lake, County Wicklow·Barrowbob, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Upper Lake, County Wicklow·Barrowbob, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Where it is

The pin sits from the main access point on the shore, and every distance on this page is measured from that same point. The other pins are the nearest lakes in County Wicklow.

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Parking, viewpoints and stops

Everything here is measured from the main access point on the shore. A viewpoint is a place that looks at the lake, which is not the same as a place on it.

Parking

Glendalough Upper Lake is 630 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 660 m along mapped paths. The map records a charge.

Viewpoints
  • An unnamed viewpoint400 m
  • An unnamed viewpoint450 m
  • An unnamed viewpoint610 m
  • Upper Lake view900 m
Nearest stops

No bus stop or station is mapped within two kilometres.

Getting to Upper Lake

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Public transport times come from National Transport Authority. Timetables cover 2026-09-18 to 2027-09-19. These are scheduled services; check with the operator for cancellations and changes before travelling.

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How journey planning works
Destination, access and nearby stops

Upper Lake is in Glendalough, County Wicklow. Routes here end at the stretch of shore a public way reaches, which this site measured on the ground. A car park is recorded 664 m from the water, about 8 minutes on foot.

Glendalough is the nearest settlement, 1.9 km east of the lake. Arriving in Glendalough is not arriving at the water, so the journeys below are worked out to the water and say so when they cannot reach it.
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Stops near it

The nearest scheduled stop is Glendalough (12012), 2.0 km away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.

  • Glendalough 2.0 km
    buses 183, 895 and 181
    Scheduled departures from this stop

Getting to Glendalough covers the journeys into the town itself.

The nearest other lakes

Ordered by distance from the main access point on the shore, in a straight line, which is the same point and the same measure as the figures beside them.

Questions people ask

Can you walk to Upper Lake?
A public road or path comes within 6 m of the shore, along about 1.6 km of it. That is what the map shows; it is not a statement of permission, which the map does not record.
How big is Upper Lake?
35 ha, with 3.3 km of shore, measured from the outline OpenStreetMap holds, which is made of 2 records merged into one lake here.
Where can you park for Upper Lake?
Glendalough Upper Lake is 630 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 660 m along mapped paths.
How do you get to Upper Lake without a car?
The nearest stop in the national timetable is Glendalough, 2.0 km from the main access point on the shore in a straight line, and buses 183, 895 and 181 call there, run by TFI Local Link Carlow Kilkenny Wicklow and St. Kevin's Bus Service. The planner on this page works out the walk from that stop, and where no footway joins it to the water it says so rather than making a number up.

Where this comes from

The lake itself
The outline, the name and the identifiers are OpenStreetMap records, 2 of them merged here into one lake. Correct it there Figures marked Wikidata come from Q27588512.
What this site measured
The area and the shore are worked out from that outline. The stretches of shore a way reaches, the walk in from a car park and every distance on this page are worked out here, on this site’s own graph of the OpenStreetMap ways, last built on 2026-09-20. These are this site’s calculations, not the map’s, and a mistake in them is a mistake here.