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Exploration of routes on Ballincurra.

Track 1959 simon3 22 hours ago
Starting from the forest entrance to the south this track sh walk, Length:5.6km, Climb: 213m, Area: Ballincurra Hill, Shannon (Ireland) Ballincurra H

Silvermine Mountains Far E Top: Trivial ascent, some views, gateway to wooded Ea

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 23 hours ago
Park in the carpark at R84440 69415 (388 mtrs), cross the road and head uphill and east for about 200 meters, the summit is at a track junction.

Knockane: Easy though rough to get to, great views.

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 23 hours ago
Park at a forest entrance R850 665 , room for 5 cars, walk into the forest right at R844 663 which will bring you through the forest onto moorland. As it peters out you have a rough 200 meter cros...

Simple way up from the SW.

Track 1958 simon3 22 hours ago
Park near the start off the road which was retarred in 2012. walk, Length:2.8km, Climb: 152m, Area: Knockadigeen Hill, Shannon (Ireland) Knockadigeen

Cooneen Hill: Briars, pines and pain

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 23 hours ago
Start from the forestry entrance at R90294 66782 and walk uphill, taking two lefts and one right off the main track onto a very rough track thats almost blocked near the end with felled trees, to...

Thank you MV

Forum: General ahendroff 2 days ago
At 5.42pm today I completed my 404th and final Arderin. Long journey to here. Delighted & overjoyed. Humbled at the challenge also. And thanks Mountain Views for that. Gougane Barra will always be...

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Forum: General BleckCra 3 days ago
Thank you kevin carroll. If I can put a smile on that contrary face, the Matterhorn should be a cakewalk.

Cooneen Hill: View from the South West

Summit Comment simon3 23 hours ago
Knockane affords this view of Cooneen Hill from the SW.

Experimental track of a trip to Keeper Hill and 2 nearby summits.

Track 2171 simon3 2 days ago
This may not be at all an optimum route. walk, Length:20.8km, Climb: 859m, Area: Knockfune, Shannon (Ireland) Knockfune, Knockane, Keeper Hill

Re Main Area Display, logging

Forum: Suggestions simon3 3 days 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...

Soarns Hill: Forested summit

Summit Comment slemish 3 days 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 ...

Varied, strenuous wild Bluestacks walk.

Track 2209 simon3 4 days ago
This varied route explores the two Ardnageers, Croaghbane, C walk, Length:21.0km, Climb: 999m, Area: Ardnageer SW Top, Bluestack Mountains (Ireland)
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Knocknagorraveela Mountain Cnoc na gCorrmhíolta A name in Irish
(Ir. Cnoc na gCorrmhíolta [OSI], 'hill of the midges') Kerry County In Arderin List

Height: 507m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 85 Grid Reference: V87174 62520 This summit has been logged as climbed by 22 members
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Longitude: -9.636408, Latitude: 51.804127 Prominence: 152m,   Isolation: 1.2km
ITM: 487148 562584,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Knc507, 10 char: Knckngrvl

Alternatively this name may derive from Cnoc na Garbhghaile [T6000], 'hill of the rough wind'.   Knocknagorraveela is the 445th highest summit in Ireland.
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Knocknagorraveela in area Caha Mountains, Ireland
 
by simon3  24 Nov 2006 Potentially there are a lot of access points for this summit. For example you can start from the Beara Way, marked on the OS 1:50k - it's around a 3k walk from the Beara Way via the NE spur from the summit marked 464 on the map. You could probably come at the summit from the Baurearagh valley or from near Knockduff to the NE.

Another place to start is at the forest entrance at V846626 (Point A) in the Clonee Valley. This glacial valley is well worth a visit in its own right having dramatic sides and big lakes. Leave the road and head into the valley to the W of Knocknagorraveela. If you go through 854629 (Point B) your track should be on uncultivated ground west of any fields. The river can be crossed somewhere to the NW of the summit for example at 866632 (Point C).

The summit has great views down the Clonee Valley. The photo shows the summit from a point between Cummeenanimma (aka Eskana) and Coomnadiha. There is a spectacular waterfall W of the summit. The lake bottom right is Cummeenadillure Lough. The ridge on the skyline to the left heads NW towards Kenmare River over various bumps. Richard Mersey [The Hills of Cork and Kerry] describes this as "Boring Ridge". Maybe so, but this summit has many other interesting features.
Point A: V846 626 Point B: V854 629 Point C: V866 632
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Knocknagorraveela in area Caha Mountains, Ireland
by simon3  19 Nov 2006 There are only a few things that actually improve during wet weather on the hills. And one of them is this waterfall seen here during a rainy spell one November. The water falls around 120m at the head of the Clonee valley from a small lake at Cummeenaloughaun. The white foaming water on the black unvegetated rock makes this a particularly striking display. The green fields below are part of the Gleninchiquin park.
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Knocknagorraveela in area Caha Mountains, Ireland
 
by simon3  20 Nov 2006 The ridge SW from this summit has very rough ground caused by big areas of exposed and very irregular slabs and also some 80cm high rushes. Coming towards the top it took around half an hour to complete just 1200m.

The photo looks along the ridge and away from the summit to the SW. The vague shapes in the mist to the right are the slabs of the NE of Coomnadiha. For all the apparent wildness of this scene in fact there is a road coming up from the Baurearagh Valley (beyond the left of this picture) which at its highest point reaches within 250m of the line of the ridge (around 90m of climbing).
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by milo  4 Jan 2008 No pictures, due to a dull 29th December. No eponymous midges either. With adjoining tops of Cummer, Derrysallagh and perhaps also Feorus an entertaining deviation from the Bunane to Killaha section of the Beara Way was achieved. Access is no problem by this route and it is worth going some 200m SW of the apparent summit for a sneaky peek down to the upper Inchquin valley with two hanging lakes and to the vivid fields of what Simon3 refers to as 'Inchquin Park': a pay-in facility which has been the subject of some controversy. The walk took about 4 1/2 easy hours car to car, well suited to a wintry day
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Knocknagorraveela in area Caha Mountains, Ireland
by colin murphy  24 Aug 2009 The long, narrow summit of Knocknagorraveela offers several points as candidates for its highest point, but someone has decided that this one, marked by a pile of stones, is the winner. Interesting top, with lots of craggy rock outcroppings speckled with pools of water, though the views are a little limited.
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