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Dublin/Wicklow Area Wicklow Mountains Subarea Printable format
Maximum height for area: 925 metres Summits in area: 89
OS Map(s): 28B, 49, 50, 55, 56, 61, 62 for all tops Set Area Map On
   

Ballinacor Mountain Mountain Wicklow County
Sliabh Bhaile na Corra A name in Irish (Language)
(poss. Ir. Sliabh Bhaile na Corra [PDT], 'hill of Baile na Corra or the townland of the weir')
Height: 531 metres OS 1/50k Mapsheet: 62 for top
Grid Ref: T11709 86486 Latitude: 52.917926 Longitude: -6.340015
ITM: 711633 686522 Prominence: 56m   Isolation: 1.8km
Rating graphic. Ballinacor is the name of a townland, a parish and two baronies (Ballinacor South and North), which shows that it was historically of considerable importance, even though there is no village of the name. Ballinacor has in turn been the seat of the Angl
Ballinacor Mountain is the 395th highest summit in Ireland. Our data has reached 74% of the goal for this summit. (Details)
   
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Ballinacor Mountain in area Dublin/Wicklow, County Wicklow, Ireland
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by padodes  19 Jan 2009 This may not seem a very pre-possessing mountain, but once one get to know its history, it begins to grow in stature. The stronghold of the O'Byrnes of Gabhal Raghnaill, a junior branch of the clan, was on the northern slope of Ballinacor (‘Baile na Corra’: the homestead of the slope). It was especially during the time of Fiach McHugh O’Byrne, in the latter part of the 16th century, that Gaelic resistance to the English invader was at its height – and its most successful – in this mountainous area around Glenmalure. Fiach won a resounding victory over Lord Grey in Glenmalure in 1580, although it is here, too, that he was finally defeated and slain by Lord Russell in 1597. If you wish to learn more about the O’Byrnes of Ballinacor, I would suggest a very informative article by Dr Harry Long of Trinity College, which you will find reproduced on http://homepage.eircom.net/~nobyrne/Settlement_in_Feagh_OByrne_Ballinacor.htm

It seems that the word ‘baile’ in Ballinacor refers, not to a village in our modern understanding, but to a ‘rath’ kind of settlement of wooden structures surrounded by protected earthen ramparts. What remains of two of the original three enclosures can be seen today, not far from the Georgian residence known as Ballinacor House. From here the O’Byrnes could control the entrance to Glenmalure and the Avonbeg River valley down to Greenan and beyond.

As far as the summit of this flat mountain is concerned, there is a small cairn that it is easy to miss at T 1170 8648 (Point A) (see photo, with Croaghanmoira rising in the background). My own best guess before I stumbled over this, however, was a point at T 1173 8653 (Point B).
Point A: T1170 8648 Point B: T1173 8653 (turn area map On)
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Ballinacor Mountain in area Dublin/Wicklow, County Wicklow, Ireland
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by padodes  20 Jan 2009 This is not the summit cairn on Ballinacor, although it has far more the appearance of that than the modest pile of stones that purports to mark the top, a short distance above it to the north. It can be found at T 1172 8636 (Point C). I have no idea what its significance may be. A boundary marker, perhaps, or the whim of idle hands?

In the ‘Leabhar Branach’, the late medieval work of bardic verse that sings the praises of the O’Byrnes, Ballinacor is called a “hunter’s haven”, and even today wildlife abounds on and around this mountain. I don’t think I have ever seen in one place such numbers of pheasant lower down or of grouse above. Here too, one warm day, I approached what I thought was an old branch sticking up out of the heather, when all of a sudden it became the antlers of a big stag that rose up from a hollow a few metres in front of me where he had been sunning himself. A look of surprise and disdain, and he was gone!
Point C: T1172 8636 (turn area map On)
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by sbarany  19 May 2005 Unfortunatelly, I have not read milo's comment before the walk and thus I visited Ballinacor (from Croaghanmoira). There were nothing (signpost, fence, warning) to indicate that walkers should keep off this top (or the area around it). There were no animals either, only walkers (one of them a local).
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by csd  5 May 2003 Those wishing to attempt Ballinacor should read milo's comments regarding access under the entry for Croaghanmoira. The photo shows Ballinacor viewed from Croaghanmoira, with the Irish Sea just visible in the distance.
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by Jaak  30 Oct 2005 Climbed this recently from the Aughavannagh to Greenane road. Initially the views along this road are of Croaghanmoira, but after you round that mountain Ballinacor comes into view on your left. I travelled to the point where the road was closest to the mountain - at a bridge beside an acute bend. A gate leads from the road to the mountainside and the summit is an easy 20-30 minute walk from there. The gate was unlocked and there were no signs suggesting there were any restrictions on climbing from this point.
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