The Sugarloaf

Sugarloaf from Sea

Sugarloaf from Cliffs

Presumably that illustrated by Daniel King in 1656

where he describes it as being called Chering Cross. Kneen states its Gaelic names are Cashtal y Stackey, and Cashtal Kione ny Goagyn, i.e., ‘the castle of the stack’ and ‘the castle of chasms head.’ The Gaelic cashtal and Norse stack are synonymous terms in place-names.

The Victorian photographs appears to have been taken from about the same vantage point as King's drawing. There are several caverns around the coast near the rock which were described in the 1896 BA guide as 'the caves near the Sugar-loaf rock, which have to be entered by boat, and which show at low-tide great areas of rock almost wholly covered with sea-anemones, zoophytes, sponges, ascidians, and other animals'.

Roeder has a couple of superstitious tales about it.