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Blackstairs Mountains Area

Maximum height for area: 795 metres, Summits in area: 11, Maximum prominence for area: 707 metres, OSI/LPS Maps: 68 For all tops Highest summit:

Mount Leinster, 795m

Summits in area Blackstairs Mountains:

Blackstairs Mountain 735m

Mount Leinster East Top 654m

Slievebaun 444m

Slievebawn 520m

Bran Scultair Mountain Carlow/ Wexford County In Arderin List

Height: 504m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 68 Grid Reference: S78598 40081 This summit has been logged as climbed by 60 members
I have climbed this summit: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.)

Longitude: -6.843225, Latitude: 52.50687 Prominence: 129m, Isolation: 1.6km, Has trig pillar
ITM: 678529 640127, GPS IDs, 6 char: BrnScl, 10 char: BrnScltr

Máire MacNeill, discussing the customs associated with Caher Roe's Den, reports: Lesser piles along the top of the mountain-ridge are called after Fionn's dog, Bran, which is said to have leaped from one pile to another (MacNeill, 225). Bran Sc Bran Scultair is the 451st highest summit in Ireland. Bran Scultair is the most southerly summit and also the most westerly in the Blackstairs Mountains area.
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There is widespread forestry that covers the east .. by wicklore (Show all for Bran Scultair)

To access the road to the summit, drive to S75836 .. by murphysw (Show all for Bran Scultair)

There is a mast at the top and it is possible to .. by walker_hollick (Show all for Bran Scultair)

We parked near the spot suggested by walker_holli .. by csd (Show all for Bran Scultair)

White Mountain or Cooliagh

by barryd 1 Feb 2012 There are at least six 'Brans' (granite tors) along this ridge of which Bran Scultair aka The Aerial Brans is just one. In the course of preparing mapping for this area, as far as I can see to date, the general name for this ridge, particularly from the Wexford side is White Mountain. The name might originally come from the rock outcrops on the Wexford side at the southern end but now seems to apply to the hill as a whole.
Patrick Kennedy's stories published in the mid 1800's, routinely refer to White Mountain. However he also uses Cooliagh in places for the same ridge and I suspect this is the older name, possibly from the Carlow side as that is much rockier - as in Liath. The gap between White Mountain/ Cooliagh or Carraigalachan and Blackstairs, where the old road crosses is known as The Meeting, after the pattern day, I think. However again the older name is the Cooliagh Gap or Mam a Chuliagh according to Kennedy. This pass was in regular use at the time of his writing for people journeying from Rathnure district across to Borris etc.

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A small top to end a long ridge. A stony tricky a .. by milo (Show all for Bran Scultair)

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