Garnedd Ugain

Garnedd Ugain

Garnedd Ugain (right) and Snowdon (left)
Highest point
Elevation 1,065 m (3,494 ft)
Prominence 72 m (236 ft)
Parent peak Snowdon
Listing Hewitt, Welsh 3000s, Nuttall
Naming
Translation Cairn of the Twenty (Welsh)
Pronunciation Welsh: [ˈɡarnɛð ˈɨɡain]
Geography
Location Gwynedd, Wales
Parent range Snowdonia
OS grid SH610551
Topo map OS Landranger 115
Listed summits of Garnedd Ugain
Name Grid ref Height Status
Llechog 718 m (2,356 ft) sub Hewitt, Nuttall

Garnedd Ugain, often referred to as "Crib-y-Ddysgl", is a mountain in Wales that forms part of the Snowdon Horseshoe. It is the second highest peak in Wales, and lies just under one kilometre north of Snowdon itself.

Both Garnedd Ugain and Crib-y-Ddysgl appear on the Ordnance Survey's maps of the area. The name Crib-y-Ddysgl refers to the east ridge [1] whilst the summit is Garnedd or Carnedd Ugain.

Crib-y-Ddysgl (meaning "ridge of the dish" in Welsh) is the name used by Alan Dawson for the peak's listing as a Hewitt.

Carnedd Ugain in Welsh means "Cairn of the Twenty" (the form Garnedd is the result of soft mutation). This was named after the Roman legion based in Caernarfon.

The web pages of the Welsh Mountaineering Club suggest that the name could also be a corruption of "Carnedd Wgon", and so named after the prince Wgon sung of by Dafydd ap Gwilym or possibly after the 13th-century poet Gwgon Brydydd.[2]

References

  1. Steve Ashton (1992). Scrambles in Snowdonia. Cicerone Press. ISBN 1-85284-088-9.
  2. See . (NB "Gwgon" becomes "Wgon" under soft mutation.)

Coordinates: 53°04′30″N 4°04′35″W / 53.07499°N 4.07633°W / 53.07499; -4.07633


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