Garnedd Ugain

Garnedd Ugain
Garnedd Ugain (right) and Snowdon (left)
Elevation	1,065 m (3,494 ft)
Prominence	72 m (236 ft)
Parent peak	Snowdon
Listing	Hewitt, Welsh 3000s, Nuttall
Translation	Cairn of the Twenty (Welsh)
Pronunciation	Welsh: [ˈɡarnɛð ˈɨɡain]
Location
Location	Gwynedd,  Wales
Range	Snowdonia
Topo map	OS Landranger 115
OS grid	SH610551

Listed summits of Garnedd Ugain
Name	Grid ref	Height	Status
Llechog		718 m (2,356 ft)	sub Hewitt, Nuttall

Garnedd Ugain, sometimes incorrectly 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 [1]. (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