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Twelve Bens Area

Maximum height for area: 729 metres, Summits in area: 30, Maximum prominence for area: 684 metres, OSI/LPS Maps: 37, 44 For all tops Highest summit: Benbaun, 729m

Maumfin Hill Mám Fionn A name in Irish
(Ir. Mám Fionn [TR], 'white pass') Galway County In Binnion List

Height: 172m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 37 Grid Reference: L64700 58800 This summit has been logged as climbed by 5 members
I have climbed this summit: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.)

Longitude: -10.042679, Latitude: 53.561825 Prominence: 157m, Isolation: 3.5km
ITM: 464679 758820, GPS IDs, 6 char: Mmfn, 10 char: Maumfin

Maumfin is properly the name of a townland on the slopes of this hill. Tievegarriff is another townland which extends to the summit and whose name may be connected with this hill. Maumfin is the 1052th highest summit in Ireland. Maumfin is the most westerly summit in the Twelve Bens area.
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COMMENTS for Maumfin of 1

No access on 27.02.2012

by FilHil 7 Apr 2012 Poor weather prevented me from ascending any hill in west Connemara, even Tully Mountain across the bay: fog, drizzle, low cloud at 150m, however Maumfin looked just possible on the day.

I checked out the single track road running to the north of the hill, however, all metal gates were padlocked. The east contour has many private houses and fields with cattle grazing.

An approach from the south looked a possibility, short but steep, starting from near the graveyard and church ruin. There were no cattle in the field higher up and I was on my own so a quick up & down was what I had in mind. I enquired [for permission to go up through the field] at the farm opposite the church ruin but was bluntly told by a young woman working there not to go through. I checked further west at an area called Cartron, but the gates were padlocked. Reluctantly I called it a day.

If anyone knows of an access route to this otherwise unexciting hill, please publish it here.

(Comment Rating 3.00) Your Score: Very useful << >>Average Trackback: http://mountainviews.ie/summit/1044/comment/6759/

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