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A Cloon Horseshoe "mini Scavvy"?

Forum: General Conor74 less than an hour ago
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Re Main Area Display, logging

Forum: Suggestions simon3 7 hours 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...

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Track 2209 simon3 21 hours ago
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Meenanea: Bump on ridge with good views.

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 21 hours ago
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Forum: General kevin carroll a day ago
Welcome back Bleck Craw, this forum has'nt been the same without you. While we sometimes differed on certain subjects( which I wont mention), your contributions were always entertaining if sometim...

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Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 22 hours ago
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Track 2206 mcrtchly a day ago
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Carrigawaddra: The Loo valley: yes you can!, but don't...

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Forum: General roberto a day ago
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Track 2197 gerrym 3 days ago
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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...

Circuit of the Three Aghlas

Track 2204 Onzy 3 days ago
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Knocklayd Mountain Cnoc Leithid A name in Irish
(Ir. Cnoc Leithid [DUPN], 'hill of the slope/expanse') Antrim County In Arderin List

Height: 514m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 5 Grid Reference: D11500 36400 This summit has been logged as climbed by 69 members
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Longitude: -6.251362, Latitude: 55.162174 Prominence: 389m,   Isolation: 5.6km,   Has trig pillar
ITM: 711424 936380,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Knckly, 10 char: Knocklayd

With its characteristic conical shape, it can be recognised in many views from the northern part of County Antrim. The summit is surmounted by a cairn known as Carn an Truagh, interpreted in the Ordnance Survey Memoirs as 'cairn of the three', but t   Knocklayd is the third highest mountain in the Antrim Hills area and the 432nd highest in Ireland. Knocklayd is the most northerly summit and also the second most westerly in the Antrim Hills area. Knocklayd is the third highest point in county Antrim.
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Knocklayd in area Antrim Hills, Ireland
Picture: LOOKING OUT TO RATHLAND ON THE WAY DOWN KNOCKLAYD		  
by BILLNOR  23 Aug 2006 20-08-2006 My wife and I started our Sunday walk at 3-20pm. We also followed the route outlined by gerrym from Ballycastle, passing under the disused bridge a few hundred metres above the carpark. We also note that gerrym mentions that the route through the forest is well signed.
Vandals have damaged the discs which were attached to the posts at various intervals along the route have been vandalised. They also have vandalised some trees and remains of Beer party fires in parts of the forest complete with broken bottles. Despite this the route is relatively straightforward. Follow the forest track under the bridge turning left over a metal barrier(signs of a party here lots of broken bottles) and then right a few metres on. The track starts to wends left and uphill about 250m further on. Follow the track until you reach a T-junction (roughly 2.3K from start of walk). Turn right. Keep on climbing steadily, passing a partially camouflaged TV Mast on the left, and ignoring any tracks leading off to the left. The track eventually turns into a lightly tarred road with a parking area as (signs of joyriders here and remains of burnt out cars) you approach the brow of the hill. Knocklayd is now clearly visible to the right because of tree-felling activity. Continue on the road, again ignoring the road veering away to the left. Shortly after this (approximately 4.9K from start) you will see two large boulders which mark the end of the tarred road and this particular section of the forest. The road becomes track again at this point. To the right of the boulders a track leads off towards Knocklayd with a gate clearly in view about 400m away. Take this track crossing the gate and a second gate a little further on just as the climb becomes steeper. Simply follow the wall/fence (as seen in gerrym's picture) towards the summit ridge turning left when you reach the final fence and on to the 'Carn an Truagh' with its Trig point. Excellent views available from the summit south towards Slieveanorra. Because of mist coming in from the sea we could just about make out Rathlin and Fair Head. We had a welcome bite to eat before decending down to the forest the way we came.
A pleasant if unspectacular walk through the forest with a good range of bird life and wild plants. We finished the walk at 7.25pm .
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Knocklayd in area Antrim Hills, Ireland
by simon3  20 Apr 2004 The summit of Knocklayd can be reached from many sides. (Apparently ten townlands converge at the top.) At the top there are various lines of poles near the summit cairn. Two of these lines are relatively prominent. One comes from the NE, another to the South both leading to stiles over a fence.

As you can see in the photo, there is what is probably a passage tomb on top. The picture shows the well preserved kerb stones of the monument.
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Video from the top!
by Ptarmigan  25 Oct 2010 Here is a link to a short video I made yesterday, October 24th, from the top of Knocklayd, Co. Antrim. It was a beautiful balmy day & the video shows the lovely views you get of North Antrim, the Causeway Coast, Rathlin Island, Islay, Jura, Argyll & Ailsa Craig. My house is on the side of Knocklayd, so I'm lucky enough to be able to walk my dogs every day, on her lower slopes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wddYg8bLSzE
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Knocklayd in area Antrim Hills, Ireland
 
by ciaran67  30 Oct 2006 Climbed Knocklayd on a dull friday afternoon but was still rewarded with excellent views at the top. There are numerous ways to get up knocklayd, It is not too difficult a climb once you have reached the top its easy to navigate your way across to be rewarded with excellent views of the beautiful glenn below.
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by CECIL  14 Mar 2007 This is a Mountain with a distintive shape, for which i have experienced in all weather conditions. This is one of my earliest Mountains i have climbed for which the views are so rewarding if you are fortunate to get it clear!
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Knocklayd in area Antrim Hills, Ireland
Picture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MoVqs--8lw
A Video from the Summit
by CaptainVertigo  13 Dec 2012 Dick Glasgow (possibly a member of MV since he gives this site a mention) has uploaded a short movie on YouTube showing the views from the summit of Knocklayd. Gives you a notion of what you might see up there. I haven't gone up yet but I'm looking forward to it.
Dick Glasgow says:
Shot on the top of Knocklayd, Co. Antrim, on a beautiful balmy day in late October 2010, showing the lovely views of Ballycastle, Rathlin Island, Islay, Jura, Argyll & Ailsa Craig.
My house is on the side of Knocklayd, so I'm lucky enough to be able to walk my dogs every day, on her lower slopes.
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