sugarloaf

And pointy hill...Looks like somewhere in Wicklow.

I'd also guess somewhere around Kilmacanogue-ish area.

Though there's also pointy mountains in Mayo, of course.

Enniskerry ?

This looks like the clock tower: www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&... (Streetview)

Sometimes Flickr is amazingly indoors! Via The Library of Congress

Have we been here before? I am getting the Déjàs ...

Wicklow's not the only place with a Sugarloaf: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarloaf_(County_Cork)

beachcomber australia I worry when you get the Dejas!!

National Library of Ireland on The Commons So do I ! It's the Roche's Royal Hotel. Heaps to choose from in the catalogue - catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=hotel+roches+roya...

Funnily I think the manmade objects in the foreground take from the view. It is a beautifully well taken photograph and each on its own would look well but the one does not rhyme with the other IMO!

Swordscookie Oooh, controversial! ;) I actually like the juxtaposition of the tamed versus wild landscape. But what I really like is that the photo wasn't taken from the most obvious spot - directly in the middle of the steps down to the water, but skew-whiff instead...

Have snapped that view myself a few times. It's difficult to capture the (manicured) foreground and (natural) background sympathetically. Though it looks smashing in real life. (On first visit I remember being intrigued when reading in the brochure blurb that those winged horses in the middle-ground are made in - of all things - zinc!)

This is paradise. I wonder if they skated on the pond in the winter.

Fairytale :-))