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Mullaghmesha Hill Mullach Méise A name in Irish
(Ir. Mullach Méise [logainm.ie], 'summit of the altar') Kerry County In Carn List

Height: 494.3m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 85 Grid Reference: W09094 51396 This summit has been logged as climbed by 7 members
I have climbed this summit: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.)

Longitude: -9.315819, Latitude: 51.708171 Prominence: 209m,   Isolation: 2.2km
ITM: 509063 551462,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Mlghms, 10 char: Mlghmsh

The word mias (gen. méise) has a range of meanings including board, table, altar and dish. P.W. Joyce relates this name to a landscape feature, interpreting it as 'summit of the dish or dish-like hollow' (Irish Names of Places ii, p. 196). Bruno O   Mullaghmesha is the 481st highest summit in Ireland.

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Mullaghmesha in area Shehy/Knockboy, Ireland
Picture: From Nowen Far West
 
Enjoy the silence
Short Summary created by jackill  24 May 2012 Park at W10378 51710 (Point A) a forest entrance, room for 2 cars. Walk downhill to the north for a few hundred meters and cross the stile for the Sheeps Head way to your left. Follow the well marked(yellow paint) trail through the trees and out onto open hillside. Follow the regular Sheeps Head way marker posts to the summit. The summit is marked by a small cairn next to a wire fence crossed by another stile.
This is the place to view Bantry bay and Corks highest Knockboy.
Point A: W10378 51710

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Big view - short climb .. by thomas_g   (Show all for Mullaghmesha)
 
Great view over West cork .. by bernice   (Show all for Mullaghmesha)
 
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