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Dingle West Area

Maximum height for area: 516 metres, Summits in area: 11, Maximum prominence for area: 461 metres, OSI/LPS Maps: 70 For all tops Highest summit:

Mount Eagle, 516m

Summits in area Dingle West:

An Cró Mór 292m

An Tiaracht 200m

Carhoo Hill 184m

Ceann Bhaile Dháith 251m

Ceann Sibéal 206m

Cruach Mhárthain 403m

Sliabh an Iolair 516m

Inishnabro Hill Inis na Bró A name in Irish
(Ir. Inis na Bró [logainm.ie], 'island of the quernstone') Kerry County In Binnion List

Height: 175m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 70 Grid Reference: V21269 93042 This summit has been logged as climbed by 15 members
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Longitude: -10.606801, Latitude: 52.060946 Prominence: 175m, Isolation: 3.7km
ITM: 421260 593095, GPS IDs, 6 char: InsnBr, 10 char: InsnBr

This island is higher and more rugged than its neighbour, Inishvickillane. Tomás Ó Criomhthain records in An t-Oileánach (The Islandman) how the well-known melody Port na bPúcaí magically came to one of the Daly family living on Inishnabro. This story Inis na Bró is the 1051th highest summit in Ireland. Inis na Bró is the most southerly summit and also the second most westerly in the Dingle West area. It's also the second most westerly summit in Ireland.
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A rare view of Inis na Brò .. by wicklore (Show all for Inis na Bró)

Rocket Man

by Conor74 9 Sep 2012 The landing on the island is pure James Bond, with the dinghy scraping through an archway barely wide enough to allow us through before entering a little cove hidden from the sea. The island nearly became even more like a scene out of You Only LiveTwice when in 1973 it was proposed as the launching site for a space flight by the youthful Dr. Gary Hudson. He wrote a letter to the Irish Vice Consul in the USA pointing out that as a neutral country with no affiliated space programme, access to the EEC and the grants that would flow, the island's isolation from a large population in the event of a serious accident, and ready access to fuel (one assumes springy heather must be ideal rocket fuel), Inis Na Bro would be the perfect launch site. He claimed his plans were supported by one astronaut who had walked on the moon. He had been taken to the island by the Kerry tourist board and claimed they were enthusiastic, perhaps the suggestion that it would provide 100 jobs enticed them. Apparently Dr. Hudson believed that by 2000 we earthlings would need to mine the moon to obtain much of our raw materials. The suggestion was taken seriously enough by the Irish diplomatic corps in the USA to arrange a meeting with Dr. Hudson. Sadly for them, but happily for those who cherish the beauty and value of the Blaskets, the initial enthusiasm was met with a little more cynicism on this side of the Atlantic, as the Vice Consul was advised by the Government here to "be on (their) guard lest the whole thing...be a gigantic leg pull"!

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/secret-plans-for-irish-spaceship-revealed-127645 (Point A).html

Point A: V127 645

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The hidden entrance to Inis na Bro .. by wicklore (Show all for Inis na Bró)

A view along the island .. by wicklore (Show all for Inis na Bró)

Inis na Bró as seen from the great Blasket Island .. by Lorcan-o-c (Show all for Inis na Bró)

Another view of Inis na Brò .. by wicklore (Show all for Inis na Bró)

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