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Soarns Hill: Forested summit

Summit Comment slemish 5 hours ago
Getting to the summit of Soarns Hill is difficult and the extensive forestry means that views are severely limited. But as it qualifies under MV prominence rules, off I went to climb it. I parked ...

Soarns Hill: Local summit visit

Summit Comment Harry Goodman 5 hours ago
Climbed Soarns Hill to-day as one of the 100 listed hills nearest to my home. I used three5four0's very helpful route description. The following additional information may be useful. The second...

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Forum: General BleckCra 18 hours ago
Thank you kevin carroll. If I can put a smile on that contrary face, the Matterhorn should be a cakewalk.

Re Main Area Display, logging

Forum: Suggestions simon3 a day ago
The suggestion is that the list of summits for a mountain area obtained by asking for More Detail for the mountain area show whether or not the summit has been climbed. This has now been implement...

Varied, strenuous wild Bluestacks walk.

Track 2209 simon3 a day ago
This varied route explores the two Ardnageers, Croaghbane, C walk, Length:21.0km, Climb: 999m, Area: Ardnageer SW Top, Bluestack Mountains (Ireland)

Meenanea: Bump on ridge with good views.

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 a day ago
Meenanea is a summit of low prominence on the ridge from Cronamuck to Croaghbarnes. It is most likely that it will be reached as part of a traverse along this ridge. It has excellent views towa...

Cronamuck: Granite knob at the end of a ridge.

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 a day ago
This summit can be reached using the ridge extending NE from Croaghbarnes and there are suggestions it could be reached from Commeen to the north on the R253. Cronamuck has views over towards Gau...

A circuit of the eastern Knockmeal hills

Track 2206 mcrtchly 2 days ago
Park at S112081 and walk north along the road for about 170m walk, Length:11.7km, Climb: 620m, Area: Crohan West, Knockmealdown Mountains (Ireland) C

A Cloon Horseshoe "mini Scavvy"?

Forum: General Conor74 22 hours ago
Think none of the Scavvies so far have tackled the Dunkerrons, and the Cloon Horseshoe at its heart - Mullaghanattin, Beann, Finnararagh and then moving all the way on to Knocknagantee and swingin...

Carrigawaddra: The Loo valley: yes you can!, but don't...

Summit Comment thomas_g 2 days ago
Parked at the gravel area at the road junction at Loo Bridge, walked towards Kenmare on the R569 to a gate, then followed the muddy track to a green field (savour it, it will be the last you'll se...

Walks Around Port 2

Track 2197 gerrym 3 days ago
http://youtu.be/jq7O1tarPuQ A second walk starting and fini walk, Length:17.0km, Climb: 578m, Area: Donegal SW (Ireland)

Agnew's Hill: Shapely scarply Sallagh Braes

Summit Comment simon3 a week ago
North of the summit and over a road is the 2km long arc of Sallagh Braes, a spectacular semicircle of a valley where the higher ground to the west (left) falls away towards the sea. This pictur...
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Sugarloaf Mountain Mountain Gabhal Mhór A name in Irish
(Ir. Gabhal Mhór [OSI], 'big fork') Cork County In Arderin List

Height: 574m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 85 Grid Reference: V87376 52951 This summit has been logged as climbed by 64 members
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Longitude: -9.630352, Latitude: 51.718212 Prominence: 126m,   Isolation: 1.3km,   Has trig pillar
ITM: 487352 553018,   GPS IDs, 6 char: SgrlMn, 10 char: SgrlfMntn

The Irish name Gabhal Mhór may seem odd as a name for a mountain, but it appears to have developed from Sliabh na Gaibhle, 'mountain of the fork'. This accounts for the anglicised form Slieve Goul found in several 19th century sources. It is unclear   Sugarloaf Mountain is the 321st highest summit in Ireland.
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Feels higher than it is
Short Summary created by thomas_g  29 Jul 2012 Access is possible from the old Beara way track which can be reached by parking at V91700 54569 (Point A) (1 car) and following the track for about 5km. The turn to the old track is easy to miss it's at V888 536 (Point B). The summit can be reached via the spot height 316m in what can be a slippery climb, it gets less steep the further west you go. Access is also straightforward from Sugarloaf West.
There are great views in all directions from the trig point which for some reason is painted white.
I would not recommend a descent to the east or especially the north - stick to the ridge or go S/SW.
Due to the way the peak sits above the valley to the north, it feels much higher than its 574m.
Point A: V91700 54569 Point B: V888 536

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Sugarloaf Mountain in area Caha Mountains, Ireland
Picture: Loooking over Bantry bay, Whiddy island in the centre		  
Shipwrecks and the French
by jackill  15 Aug 2011 The Sugarloaf with its whitewashed pillar stands sentry over Bantry bay.
The bay itself has seen the devils own share of history and tragedy.
The town of Bantry was the place where an attempt to land and launch a rebellion was made by a French fleet, with Wolfe Tone, in December 1796. The French fleet consisting of 43 ships carrying 15,000 troops had divided mid-Atlantic into smaller groups to avoid interception by the Royal Navy with orders to reform at Bantry Bay. The bulk of the fleet arrived successfully, but several ships, including the flagship Fraternité carrying General Hoche were delayed. While awaiting their arrival, bad weather intervened and the lack of leadership, together with uneasiness at the prospect of being trapped, forced the decision to return to France. Tone wrote of the expedition in his diary, saying that "We were close enough to toss a biscuit ashore." The square in Bantry is today named after Wolfe Tone.

On January 8, 1979, 50 people were killed when the French oil tanker Betelgeuse, offloading at Whiddy Island caught fire, exploded, and broke into three pieces.

The bay has had numerous shipwrecks over the years. In 1981, while clean up efforts using sonar sweeps for the Betelgeuse were under way, the wreck of the French frigate La Surveillante, which had been scuttled during a storm north of Whiddy Island on 2 January 1797, was found
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Sugarloaf Mountain in area Caha Mountains, Ireland
by simon3  27 May 2003 When you finally reach Sugarloaf's top you find that it has this unusual brightly painted white trig pillar shown in the picture. The mountain in the background is Toberavanaha, almost as high as Sugarloaf, but not nearly as well known.
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Sugarloaf Mountain in area Caha Mountains, Ireland
 
by simon3  27 May 2003 Claude Wall [Mountaineering in Ireland] said of this mountain: ‘Slieve na Goill (1,887), “the misty hill”, popularly known as Sugarloaf Mountain, is an isolated cone a few miles from Glengariff noteworthy as the best viewpoint of Bantry Bay’. I can certainly agree that it has great views over Bantry Bay but “isolated cone”, no not so. It looks like a cone from the east, such as the Glengarriff area but not from north or south. It isn’t all that isolated either. The east top of Toberavanaha is only about 750m away.
The photo is a view to the north east, towards an unnamed hill of around 375m. Fading into the heat-haze on the extreme right is Shrone Hill, another place very prominent from Glengarriff.
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Sugarloaf Mountain in area Caha Mountains, Ireland
by milo  29 Apr 2003 Eat your heart out Enniskerry! Glad to say no access problems climbing it from the Beara Way on Bank Holiday Monday '03
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by DA  1 May 2003 damien about Sugarloaf Mountain A special climb for every season!
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