| Gravale | |
| Other Name: | Droibhéal |
| Translation: | difficult passage |
| Language: | Irish |
| Elevation M: | 718 |
| Elevation Ref: | [1] |
| Prominence M: | 123 |
| Listing: | 100 Highest Irish Mountains, Hewitt, Arderin, Simm, Vandeleur-Lynam |
| Location: | Wicklow, Republic of Ireland |
| Range: | Wicklow Mountains |
| Coordinates: | 53.1167°N -27°W |
| Topo: | OSi Discovery 56 |
| Map: | island of Ireland |
| Map Relief: | yes |
| Type: | Granite with microcline phenocrysts |
| Grid Ref Ireland: | O1049009420 |
| Easiest Route: | from the Sally Gap, or along the R115 |
Gravale [2] at 718m (2,356feet), is the 79th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin scale,[3] and the 98th–highest peak on the Vandeleur-Lynam scale.[4] [5] Gravale is in the middle sector of the Wicklow Mountains range, in Wicklow, Ireland. Gravale sits on a north-east to south-west "boggy ridge" that forms the "central spine" of the whole range, which runs from the Sally Gap, to Carrigvore 682m (2,238feet), to Gravale, and after a col to Duff Hill 720m (2,360feet), which is part of the larger massif of Mullaghcleevaun 849m (2,785feet).[6] [7]
Gravale's prominence of 123m (404feet), does not quality it as a Marilyn, but does rank it the 45th-highest mountain in Ireland on the MountainViews Online Database, 100 Highest Irish Mountains, where the minimum prominence threshold for inclusion on the list is 100 metres.[8] [9]
According to Irish academic Paul Tempan, the historian Eoin MacNeill, writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (JRSAI), thought that the Irish name "Drobeóil", as listed in the Metrical Dinsenchas, had survived the mountain name "Gravale".[2] Tempan also notes that historical maps of the estates in which Gravale lies suggest that the col between Gravale and Duff Hill was known as "Lavarna" or "Lavarnia", from the Irish "Leath-Bhearna", meaning "half-gap", and that this was likely a difficult trail from the Blessington lakes area to Lough Dan.[2]