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Galty Mountains Area

Maximum height for area: 918 metres, Summits in area: 23, Maximum prominence for area: 898 metres, OSI/LPS Maps: 66, 74 For all tops Highest summit:

Galtymore, 918m

Galtymore Mountain Cnoc Mór na nGaibhlte A name in Irish
(Ir. Cnoc Mór na nGaibhlte [GE], 'big hill of the Galtees') County Highpoint of Limerick & Tipperary In County Highpoint, Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam Lists

Height: 917.9m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 74 Grid Reference: R87846 23788 This summit has been logged as climbed by 743 members
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Longitude: -8.179162, Latitude: 52.365983 Prominence: 898m, Isolation: 1km, Has trig pillar
ITM: 587798 623838, GPS IDs, 6 char: Gltymr, 10 char: Galtymore

The summit of Galtymore is marked as Dawson's Table. Captain Dawson was a landowner in this area (Tipperary Directory 1889). Cf. Percy's Table on Lugnaquillia. The diarist Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin (Humphrey O'Sullivan) recorded a different Irish name Galtymore is the highest mountain in the Galty Mountains area and the 14th highest in Ireland. Galtymore is the highest point in county Limerick and also the highest in Tipperary.
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Gained access to the ridge by a less used route l .. by jimgraham (Show all for Galtymore)

St Patricks Weekend 2009; Starting from the Moun .. by grafoley (Show all for Galtymore)

Climbed Galtybeg and Galtymore during the snowy s .. by andrewhoward0 (Show all for Galtymore)

Handy walking .. by paulocon (Show all for Galtymore)

Grace and this place. .. by dhmiriam (Show all for Galtymore)

MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Galtymore in area Galty Mountains, Ireland

Picture: Rock before Cush.

Perching stone, perplexing stuff.

by simon3 23 Jul 2012 Cush serves as a backdrop for this perching stone near the summit. The rocks in this and nearby are visibly quite a mixture. Small, rounded whitish stones (quartzite pebbbles?) embedded in gray layers in some places. Where there was weathering the whitish stones can litter the ground. In other places more uniform gray rocks.

Perhaps those with geological training can explain the mixture and the odd shapes it leaves when weathered. The Geological Survey of Ireland map viewer lists the following for the summit area. Visean limestone & calcareous shale. Up. Devonian - Lr Carb ORS, sandstone, conglomerate, siltstone. (Viséan is a period within the Carboniferous, reckoned to be 328 to 345 million years old, ORS is Old Red Sandstone)

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