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A Cloon Horseshoe "mini Scavvy"?

Forum: General Conor74 3 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...

Re Main Area Display, logging

Forum: Suggestions simon3 9 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...

Varied, strenuous wild Bluestacks walk.

Track 2209 simon3 23 hours 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...

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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...

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

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...

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Forum: General roberto a day ago
Walking along the Wicklow Way today at the section that leads down to the Dargle River, steep enough section. I met a hill runner running up this part and at the same time he was having a conversa...

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...

Circuit of the Three Aghlas

Track 2204 Onzy 3 days ago
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Comeragh Mountains Area
Maximum height for area: 792 metres,   Summits in area: 17,   Maximum prominence for area: 626 metres, OSI/LPS Maps: 74, 75, 82 For all tops   Highest summit: Fauscoum, 792m
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Fauscoum Mountain Fáschom A name in Irish
(Ir. Fáschom, 'empty hollow') Waterford County In Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam Lists

Height: 792m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 75 Grid Reference: S31689 10508 This summit has been logged as climbed by 261 members
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Longitude: -7.53665, Latitude: 52.245833 Prominence: 626m,   Isolation: 1.7km
ITM: 631641 610557,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Fscm, 10 char: Fauscoum

Despite being the highest of the Comeraghs, this is a rather unremarkable summit above the spectacular valley of Coumshingaun. The circuit of Coumshingaun comprises the ascent and descent of two dramatic ridges. The cliffs at the back of the valley off   Fauscoum is the highest mountain in the Comeragh Mountains area and the 48th highest in Ireland. Fauscoum is the second most easterly summit in the Comeragh Mountains area. Fauscoum is the second highest point in county Waterford.
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Comeraghs highest point
Short Summary created by jackill  24 Sep 2010 Park at Kilclooney wood S342 102 (Point A) , room here for 20 cars. Head through the woods from the north west corner of the carpark, you will reach a forestry road after 500 meters or so. Turn right and follow this road, past a cleverly disguised phone mast then through an area of low branches to a wire fence. Cross the fence and head uphill on a very rocky track. As the track swings west cross the boulder wall that runs alongside the track and go uphill towards Coumshingaun lakes mouth. At a very large erratic boulder pick up a track that leads all the way up the left hand side of the lake. The track going up picks its way through many large rock outcrops initially before becoming a narrowing ridge. You will reach a point just under the plateau with a steep and tricky looking climb. This is the only way up or down on this side of the lake and will bring you the final 40 meters up to the plateau. On the plateau head across bog to the summit cairn.
Point A: S342 102

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Coumshingaun seen through a rock
by Colin Murphy  26 Apr 2010 Peering through one of the wonderful rock formations that dot both the south and north sides of the Coumshingaun Lough circuit. Fascoum top itself was a disappointment after the spectacle of the approach, which offers views as good as any in Ireland.
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Picture: Enjoying the fine coastal views from the summit of Knockaunapeebra
by kernowclimber  3 Feb 2010 Taking advantage of some very fine but bitterly cold weather, we climbed Knockaunapeebra on 30th January 2010 via the Mahon Falls. This was something we had been planning to do for some time but were thwarted on our attempt last June due to the fact that the window of our car was smashed during the night while we were rough camping nearby. Be warned, this is unfortunately a common occurrence in the Comeraghs according to the local police, so don’t leave valuables on view in your car. We scrambled up the rocks on the left side of the waterfalls which posed one or two moderate moves where we decided to use a rope due to the wet conditions of the rock and the potential for patches of verglas higher up. Evidence that the falls had been much swollen by the recent snowmelt was clear to see by the amount of debris that had been deposited on rocks nearby and vegetation stripped away from others. We were rewarded with the sight of amazing icicles that had formed through the constant presence of spray on the walls at the top of the falls and jewel-like ice crystals encasing single strands of grass. We then continued with a traverse round a ledge half way up the valley to access a gully at a height of 420m to take us up to the top of the cliffs. The gully, located to the right of a prominent pinnacle of rock, was about 100 metres long, quite vegetated and wet, but the rock offered enough grip to make our progress steady if inelegant! From the top, the views down the valley of the Mahon River to the coast were magnificent. We then climbed to the summit of Knockaunapeebra with its frigid, ice encrusted twin cairns glinting angrily in the low afternoon sun, greatly enjoying clear views of the coast. We descended the ridge southeast from Knockaunapeebra, past the cliffs and beyond a smaller waterfall where we scrambled down over the rocks which were partially obscured by heather making our descent slightly onerous! Roughly opposite the Mahon Falls car park we headed across the flat, boggy ground and crossed the Mahon River which had clearly been in recent spate, to join the path back to the car park after some 4 hours. A thoroughly enjoyable day out and a great first scramble of 2010.
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Picture: Coumshingaun south face		  
by Al  25 Jul 2008 Having had a scary experience on a gully scramble in W Cork described in the book "Munster's Mountains" i was keen to find out how the coumshingaun gullies would fair as described in the same book so i headed out with the father figure saturday 19/07/08. The car was parked at a layby where the Ira river flowing down from the coum crossed the clonmel-dungarvan road, S350115 (Point B). 45 minutes had us at the lakeside, a gradual track leading up. The fun then started as we skirted around the south side of the lake on a track leading up to the start of the first gully (arrows on map). Out came the rope and the slings and we negotiated the first small obstacle without much bother (although the rock was wet). Moving out of the gully to the right a little further up we traversed under the cliffs to the start of the second gully. A slightly harder move got us over the wet block at the entrance and from there it was a slog up through knee high "comeragh weed" to the top. We finished off the coumshingaun circuit from there, having the lunch and taking the picture from the north ridge before descending back along the track to the road. Route 2 i think in the book, 5 hours, description was on the money!
Point B: S350 115
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Picture: The descent from the Comeragh Plateau
by jackill  23 Sep 2005 After a week of chianti swilling and pasta gobbling in Aosta , Italy , I hauled my nicely rounded belly to the Comeraghs for a circuit of Coumshingaun lough. I started at Kilclooney wood S342 102 and headed for the lake and the climbed to reach the Plateau up the right hand side of the lake. The track going up picks its way through many large boulders and lots of large ferns . These ferns can hide a multitude of ankle twisting opportunities so sticking to the track is the best option.All the way up you have wonderful views of the lake and out to the sea with Slievenamon becoming slowly visible as you rise.Its an easy trot around the edge of the corry to the point where the photo was taken. This is the only way down on this side of the lake. A rough , steep track winds its way down for about 50 meters until you get to the ridge below. This short descent (to the right of the photo)looks tougher than it is but care must be taken.
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Picture: Rocky area on ridge south of lake		  
by Alaskan  5 Aug 2007 My wife and I scrambled Coushingaun loop starting from the Kilclooney Wood parking area. We followed the trail to the road, walked passed the fake tree to the end of the road, hopped over the fence and followed the trail to its end, from which we hiked up the meadows to the ridge. The ridge proved to be more interesting than my wife had expected with some rocky scrambles. The rocky section had many short side bits that seemed to end at scenic view points overlooking drop-offs. It took some poking about to find the best way up but was fun. My wife was quite glad that it was a sunny, dry day when we climbed up the last steep bit at the headwall to the top. She spent most of that part testing the relative merits of the various types of heather for use as hand holds. Once on the summit plateau, we wandered through the bogs to Fauscoum. Had lunch overlooking the lake then descended the north side ridge. It was a pleasant walk except for the part through the rocky section where my wife's bifocals made the scramble down through the boulders most interesting. When our descending trail met the normal trail to the lake, we continued straight across and followed sheep trails until we merged with our ascent route at the bottom of the south ridge. It was much more interesting than most Irish mountains with a few moderate challenges to give it merit. And there were the beautiful views over the lake.
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