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Bluestack Mountains Area

Maximum height for area: 674 metres, Summits in area: 35, Maximum prominence for area: 541 metres, OSI/LPS Maps: 11, 6 For all tops Highest summit:

Croaghgorm, 674m

Lavagh Beg Mountain An Leamhach Bheag A name in Irish
(Ir. An Leamhach Bheag [GE], poss. 'the little place of
elms/mallows') Donegal County In Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam Lists

Height: 650m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 11 Grid Reference: G92624 91536 This summit has been logged as climbed by 73 members
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Longitude: -8.115373, Latitude: 54.771678 Prominence: 93m, Isolation: 1km
ITM: 592576 891527, GPS IDs, 6 char: LvghBg, 10 char: Lavagh Beg

Locally known as An Leamhaigh Bheag. See Lavagh More regarding this name. Lavagh Beg is the third highest mountain in the Bluestack Mountains area and the 195th highest in Ireland.
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Picture: summit lough looking past Lavagh More to Croaghbane

by gerrym 5 May 2006 Lavagh Beg is about half an hour from the summit of bigger neighbour of Lavagh More, dropping down to the col and then a steep climb over fairly easy grassy ground. The summit has three little tops interspersed with loughs of different sizes and a cairn. As with neighbour there are stunning views out to the Atlantic, with the Arran islands being particularly prominent. The recent development of windfarms in the area is very visible and does detract to some degree from the general wilderness feeling accompanying walking in the Bluestacks. I have descended steeply into the Reelan valley on a bearing of 50' towards a yellow roofed building over quite slippy ground, picking up a stream and following it down to a fence and then a road which leads back to the old schoolhouse after 2.5 miles of further walking. I have also decended back to the col with Lavagh More and dropped down to contour around the hill towards the river,forest and the waymarked way which travels down from the Struell Gap - reach road and short walk back to old school house. Part of a fantastic circuit which rates among the best walking i have had the pleasure of doing in this country.

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by csd 16 Aug 2004 Having reached the summit of Silver Hill, we headed East and approached Lavagh Beg from its broad western flank. The summit of Lavagh Beg is a rounded cone surrounded on two sides by ponds. The cone shape means it's fairly easy to get shelter no matter what direction the wind is coming from. Unfortunately the mist came down just as we approached the summit, so most of the views were obscured. This picture shows the small summit cairn (more a collection of rocks) and one of the ponds below.

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Picture: The summit of Lavagh Beg as seen from Lavagh More

by murphysw 17 Jul 2005 After having climbed Lavagh More I descended the col to climb Lavagh Beg to the west. Lavagh Beg is a much more sculpted looking mountain than the rounded blob that is Lavagh Beg. It is quite steep to climb from the col to the summit. The summit of Beg is quite a complicated affair with a couple of lakes and numerous rises and the cairn is not immeidiatly obvious. It is quite steep to get back down into the valley at Doocrow but it would have been a very pleasnt jaunt were it not for the flys that resumed their asault on me (see comment on Lavagh More) as I descended. Sqelched into a couple of bogholes as I tried to fight the so and so's off me, otherwise it was fairly straightforward. Met the farmer who had let me through his land on the way down. Otherwise there was not a soul to be seen all afternoon

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by csd 16 Aug 2004 This picture shows the col between Silver Hill and Lavagh Beg (in the mist to the right). Progress is fairly straightforward, with just the odd boggy hole to catch the unwary. Do take care crossing the fence, which runs N-S along the bottom of this valley.

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Picture: The rugged summit of Lavagh Beg

by murphysw 17 Jul 2005 Here's a picture i shot when I reached the summit of Lavagh Beg, with one of its summit lakes and its numerous bumps and rises.

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Picture: Looking SW over Lavagh Beg summit towards Binnasruell & Donegal Bay beyond

by eflanaga 10 Jun 2006 Climbed June 7th – After taking a break at one of Lavagh More’s summit locheens IG 93544 91010 (Point A), the third summit bagged that morning, I made my way on a bearing of 306 NW towards the more aesthetic looking, albeit smaller, Lavagh Beg dropping down a short distance to the col between the two ‘Lavaghs’. The descent over exposed rock and firm ground was fairly easy and the walk over the col a relative pleasure in the approaching noon heat. The ascent of Lavagh Beg was also relatively easy over large areas of exposed rock at first and then the usual grass covered slopes up to the summit cairn. Either side of the summit is a locheen, The views from here are similar to those from big brother across the valley. As ‘gerrym’ suggests the windfarm close to Silver Hill does detract somewhat from the otherwise feeling of isolation, the various lochs around the foot of the Binnasruell plateau were particularly eyecatching in the sunlight. I stopped by the side of one of the summit locheens for a short break, taking the opportunity to doff my boots and enjoy a cool feet soak, After a snack and re-booting I was sorely tempted to make for Silver Hill & Carnaween to the west and southwest respectively, but decided to stick to my intended route (having left a copy of it at home just in case!). Therefore, I headed off in the direction of Binnasruell, the penultimate summit in the circuit, across the valley.

Point A: G93544 91010

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British summit data courtesy:
Database of British & Irish Hills
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