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Iveragh NW Area

Maximum height for area: 690 metres, Summits in area: 16, Maximum prominence for area: 565 metres, OSI/LPS Maps: 83, 84 For all tops Highest summit: Knocknadobar, 690m

Summits in area Iveragh NW:
Beenduff 479m Bentee 376m Bolus 410m Bray Head 239m Castlequin 361m Foilclogh 497m Geokaun 266m Kells Mountain 633m Kells Mountain East Top 612m Killelan Mountain 275m Killurly 331m Knocknadobar 690m Knocknadobar North Top 602m Knocknaskereighta 395m Puffin Island 159m Sceilg Mhicíl 217m

Great Skellig Hill Sceilg Mhicíl A name in Irish
(Ir. Sceilg Mhichíl [logainm.ie], 'rock of St. Michael') Kerry County In Binnion List

Height: 217m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 83X Grid Reference: V24600 60600 This summit has been logged as climbed by 34 members
I have climbed this summit: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.)

Longitude: -10.541804, Latitude: 51.770775 Prominence: 217m, Isolation: 11.8km
ITM: 424588 560664, GPS IDs, 6 char: SclgMh, 10 char: SclgMhcl

The highest point on the island is known as Cró na Snáthaide, 'eye of the needle', and was visited by pilgrims who kissed a cross-inscribed slab overhanging the abyss. This fell into the sea at some time during the 19th century. As access to the sum Sceilg Mhicíl is the 1039th highest summit in Ireland. Sceilg Mhicíl is the most southerly summit and also the most westerly in the Iveragh NW area.
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I went to Skellig Michael a couple years ago befo .. by Alaskan (Show all for Sceilg Mhicíl)

Fabulous place. Go in summer when the puffins ar .. by cormacg (Show all for Sceilg Mhicíl)

Awesome...just awesome...

by Conor74 31 Jul 2012 The larger of the two Skelligs is a remarkable island. Following a crossing in a ferry that bobbed all over the place, we landed at Blind Man’s Cove to the NE of the island. Above our heads, there is a now decommissioned trail that leads directly to the monastery ruins. Now one ascends by means of a road that skirts the east of the island, ascending gradually to the Wailing Woman rock. This is about half way along the island. About 400 or 500 steps above this, one reaches the Saddle, the col between the north and south summits. The north contains the famous ruins of an ancient monastery, the southern section is off limits and has the lighthouses and a dramatic spire of rock that contains the destination for pilgrims with nerves of steel in former times, and one of the most awesome structures one will ever witness. For near the top of the pinnacle is a hermitage that clings to a rock that drop hundreds of feet sheer into the Atlantic. Yes, everyone makes a beeline for the monastery, but for me the hermitage was just about the most remarkable thing I have seen on the peaks of this country. This was a place so remote and so inaccessible that they only excavated it in the 1980s. Now, cleaned up, it is more clearly defined against the pinnacle. It is a truly jaw dropping location. This was the place for the monk who decided that a stack of rock miles into the ocean was not remote enough, that removing himself from the 10 other monks who eked out an existence high over the Atlantic was not enough, he had to go to a place where the rock terrace only cling on by millimetres. Sadly, off limits for climbers, but even looking up at it is amazing. Here it is shown by the arrow, just below the bottom edge of the pic is the ocean...

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Reading comments about the boat to the Skellig Ro .. by wellaway (Show all for Sceilg Mhicíl)

Monks are not stupid - great piece of nature in t .. by yambox (Show all for Sceilg Mhicíl)

Reaching the highest point of Sceilg Mhicíl could .. by dbloke (Show all for Sceilg Mhicíl)

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