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Sperrin Mountains Area   NW Cen: Glenelly North West Subarea
Place count in area: 64, OSI/LPS Maps: 12, 13, 6, 7, 8 
Highest place:
Sawel, 678m
Maximum height for area: 678 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 657 metres,

Places in area Sperrin Mountains:
E: Magherafelt Hills:   Slieve Gallion NE Top 493.6m
E: Magherafelt Hills:   Slieve Gallion 526.6m
N: Claudy Hills:   Crockdooish 321mCurradrolan Hill 270mEglish 277mLetterlogher 249mMullaghmeash Hill 244mSlieveboy 259mStraid Hill 303m
NE Cen: Glenelly North East:   Barnes Top 456mCraigagh Hill 460mCrockbrack 526.1mKnockanbane Mountain 441mMeenard Mountain 620mMeenard Mtn W Top 480mMullaghaneany 627mMullaghash 480mMullaghsallagh 485mOughtmore 569mSpelhoagh 568m
NE: Glenshane North:   Benbradagh 465mBoviel Top 454mCarn Hill 448mCarntogher 464mMoneyoran Hill 414m
NE: Glenshane South:   Bohilbreaga 478mCoolnasillagh Mountain 423mCorick Mountain 430mCrockalougha 407mMullaghmore 550mWhite Mountain 537m
NW Cen: Glenelly North West:   Dart Mountain 619mDart Mountain North-West Top 525mLearmount Mountain 489mLearmount Mountain South Top 492mMullaghasturrakeen 581mMullaghcarbatagh 517mMullaghclogha 635mMullaghclogher 572mMullaghdoo 568mSawel 678m
NW: Maheramason Hills:   Clondermot Hill 220mGortmonly Hill 218mSlievekirk 370m
SE Cen: Glenelly South East:   Carnanelly 562mCarnanelly West Top 503.4mMullaghbane 467mMullaghturk 416m
SE: Cookstown Hills:   Cregganconroe 300mFir Mountain 362mOughtmore 382m
SW Cen: Glenelly South West:   Clogherny Top 408mCraignamaddy 385mCrocknamoghil 335mMullaghbolig 442mSpaltindoagh 420m
SW: Mullaghcarn:   Curraghchosaly Mountain 416mMullaghcarn 542mMullaghcarn South Top 525m
SW: Newtownstewart Hills:   Bessy Bell 420mMullaghcroy 242m
W: Strabane:   Balix Hill 403mKnockavoe 296mOwenreagh Hill 400m

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
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Learmount Mountain Hill Derry County in NI and in Ulster Province, in Carn List, Psammite & semipellite Bedrock

Height: 489m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 13 Grid Reference: H58064 98281
Place visited by 41 members. Recently by: madfrankie, Colin Murphy, garybuz, Paddym99, Carolyn105, abcd, wintersmick, Kilcoobin, trostanite, Hoverla, dregish, eamonoc, MichaelG55, LorraineG60, melohara
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Longitude: -7.097332, Latitude: 54.828975 , Easting: 258064, Northing: 398281 Prominence: 34m,  Isolation: 1.2km
ITM: 657999 898272,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Lrm489, 10 char: LrmntMntn
Bedrock type: Psammite & semipellite, (Dart Formation)

Learmount (Ir. Ard na Laidhre) is a parish which straddles the Tyrone/Derry county boundary.   Learmount Mountain is the 600th highest place in Ireland.

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Learmount Mountain  in area Sperrin Mountains, Ireland
Picture: Learmount's high point with Dart in distance.
 
A bit of a slog, but otherwise simple.
Short Summary created by Colin Murphy  8 May 2023
Parking for a couple of cars at H5895797010 starA. Cross the road and begin a steepish ascent up a grassy slope. The grassy is gradually replaced by heather and rougher terrain. At H58492 97103 starB, two fences intersect, turn directly north and follow the fence through the boggy terrain. You will have to lose most of the height you gained earlier, dropping back down to 450m ascent, before the fence veers NW, and continues all the way to the high point, which is unremarkable, marked only by a slightly elevated peat mound. Good views looking back towards Dart & Sawel Mts. Allow 1.5 hours for return journey. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/490/comment/5249/
 
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Picture: Sawel and Dart from Learmount Mountain
Learmount Mountain
by Harry Goodman  19 Apr 2010
Climbed Learmount Mountain on 13 April 2010, parking at one of the pull in places H5895797010 starA near the cattle grid at the crest of the Tamnagh Road from Cranagh to Park. I followed the fence going W up the slopes of Learmount Mtn South Top to a fence junction on the flat top where I turned right and followed the new fence N to the equally flat top of Learmount Mountain. As the map shows the top is marked as central within the 480m ring contour and should lie some 50/60 metres SSE of a stout post which marks the high point and change in direction of the fence at H5806298278 starC.As so frequently applies in the Sperrins one is faced with a very flat top and a number of peaty hummocks a number of which could well be the high point. This said the top is not in my view 50/60 metres away from the high point of the fence and is more likely some 10/15 metres away at H5806198272 starD. However a short walk about soon covers all likely contenders and you can leave safe in the knowledge that you have crossed the high point ! The top is an excellent spot to have lunch. There were views NE over Mullaghash to Benbradgh and N to Inishowen while just across the valley to the SE was the fine ridge from Sawel to Dart. Instead of returning by the outward route I opted to follow the fence back down SE for about 450m and then leave it and continue on across and down the open hillside to my start point. On the way down I could see what looked like three parallel lines of snow filled cuttings in the peaty ground going in my direction. When I reached them I followed the middle one down to a junction with a small stream at H5872197619 starE which I crossed and then continued up along the cutting to its high point on the hill at H5882497363 starF and then went steeply down to the car crossing over a couple of small but steep ridges just before reaching the road. A short but satisfying walk of some 3.75k easily covered without stops in about an hour and a half Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/490/comment/4619/
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Picture: Learmount, on the way from Learmount Mtn S Top
 
Best Done With S Top
by Aidy  10 Mar 2015
My last summit of the day on Sunday after Dart and Learmount Mtn S Top. I was parked near the highest point on the Park/Tamnagh Road, and after Learmount Mtn S Top, it was a short walk to Learmount, although there was an area of torturous peat hags to get through on S Top. I avoided this area on the return leg by sticking to the eastern flanks of both, although there was tussocky grass and rushes instead, and some quite steep slopes. It was such a short distance however, that I didn't mind. The best of the views from the summit are in an arc from the northwest to the northeast over most of Co. Derry. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/490/comment/17876/
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