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Comeragh Mountains Area

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Maximum height for area: 792 metres

Summits in area: 17

OS Map(s): 74, 75, 82 for all tops

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Knockanaffrin Mountain	Waterford County
Cnoc an Aifrinn A name in Irish	(Language)
(Ir. Cnoc an Aifrinn [OSI], 'hill of the mass')
Height: 755 metres	OS 1/50k Mapsheet: 75 for top
Grid Ref: S28560 15290	Latitude: 52.289013 Longitude: -7.582201
ITM: 628503 615342	Prominence: 289m Isolation: 1.5km
Knockanaffrin is the third highest mountain in the Comeragh Mountains area and the 74th highest in Ireland. Our data has reached 60% of the goal for this summit. (Details)

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Knockanaffrin in area Comeragh Mountains, County Waterford, Ireland

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Short Summary created by jackill 14 Jan 2012 Park in the Nire Valley car park S 277 128 (Point A), room for 20 cars, but note this fills up fast on weekends, walk up hill on a grassy then heatherly slope from the easten edge of the carpark following approximately a line of white wooden posts.
Walk through a small gate on a sheep fence and follow the track uphill, downhill then gently uphill again to the gapS301 133 (Point B).
Do not cross the stile here but turn NW keeping the fence, and an increasing vertical drop, to your right. There is a fence to be crossed just below the outcrop of rocks before the summit.
An excellent ridge walk, especially if you continue on to Knocksheegowna.

Point A: S277 128

Point B: S301 133

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by simon3 7 May 2004 The picture shows Coumduala Lough, SE of Knockanaffrin. Writing of this Claude Wall [Mountaineering in Ireland] said “There is a row of perpendicular boiler plated slabs about twenty feet in height, high in the cliff above Coumduala Lough, which provides an exciting traverse.” I’m not quite sure where he meant, but certainly walking along the edge amongst the various rocky outcrops gives quite a sense of exposure.

Unfortunately the ridge route from “The Gap”, the saddle between Knockanaffrin and the Comeragh plateau has considerable footpath erosion. Despite this, the ridge must be one of the best ridges to walk along in the country, with fine views on both sides.

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by jackill 9 May 2005 View from the top of Knockanaffrin - with point 634 m slightly right of centre and point 605 m slightly left of centre with Coumduala Lough underneath. Knocknalingady and Fauscoum are left of 605 m in the background and the "bump" on the side of the hill (extreme left ,background) is the north side of Coumshingaun which can be reached from Kilclooney wood S342 102 (Point C)

Point C: S342 102

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by deswalk 11 Apr 2007 Because last Easter Week was so warm, sunny and dry, I decided to visit the often slightly boggy Nire valley where I hadn't walked for some years. As a gentle re-introduction my wife and I did a lovely little circuit starting from the Nire car park at GR 276128 (Point D) then heading east-ish to point 466m at The Gap GR 301133 (Point E) then NW up the ridge to point 625m GR 291141 (Point F) overlooking Coumduala Lough. From here we simply followed the shoulder SW back to the car park. There is a fence to follow along this shoulder if visibility is poor. It's a circuit of just over 6Km and not too strenuous if you're out of training! A wonderful afternoon with great views and absolutely bone dry underfoot which is unusual for that area.

Point D: R276 128	Point E: R301 133	Point F: R291 141
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by simon3 20 May 2004 The actual summit is a jutting outcrop of the conglomerate rock that much of the Comeraghs are made of. The presence of such outcrops on summits (tors) in the area is thought to indicate that these mountain tops were not overridden by the icesheets of the recent ice-ages.

During the primary triangulation of Ireland Knockannafrin was a key point around 1829.

When I visited the summit in May 2004, there were two round and hollow structures built of piled rocks, which look like shelters. The photo shows part of one of these with a view SW along a spur of Knockanaffrin to a cairn (shown as at 718m on the OS).

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by sinbadw 21 Oct 2004 This was the last hill on our circuit of the Nire Valley, and boy was it a spectacular way to finish. If you are in the area and just want a short walk go for this one. The ridge as you ascend is very sharp, falling away steeply to the north and is no slouch on the south for much of it. The views are great, looking south to the amphitheatre of Coumfea and the lakes and east to the farmland of Waterford and southeast Tipp. On the North side the tree-line comes up surprisingly high, lord knows how they planted them on that slope. We reached the rocky outcrop that forms the peak but as the weather was coming in rapidly we declined to clamber over the rocks to the true summit for safety reasons (see comments about my recent wussiness on Knocknalingady :-)...).
We then made our way down to the fence that travells southwest along the spur to the lay-by where we had parked the car.

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