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Dartry Mountains Area

Maximum height for area: 647 metres, Summits in area: 28, Maximum prominence for area: 560 metres, OSI/LPS Maps: 16, 17, 25, 26 For all tops Highest summit:

Truskmore, 647m

Thur Mountain Hill An Tor A name in Irish
(prob. Ir. An Tor [PDT], 'the tor') Leitrim County In Carn List

Height: 442m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 17 Grid Reference: G98000 40400 This summit has been logged as climbed by 9 members
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Longitude: -8.031502, Latitude: 54.312359 Prominence: 227m, Isolation: 4.2km
ITM: 597950 840402, GPS IDs, 6 char: ThrMnt, 10 char: ThrMntn

Known as Torr by the people who live on the N side of Lough Macnean (Kay Muhr). There are crags facing NE immediately below the summit, which justify the name. A reference in the Annals of the Four Masters to Tor Glinne Fearna in the year 1235 is proba Thur Mountain is the 647th highest summit in Ireland. Thur Mountain is the second most easterly summit in the Dartry Mountains area.
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Thur Mountain in area Dartry Mountains, Ireland

Picture: Looking east from Thur's summit towards Lough MacNean

by madfrankie 1 Mar 2010 Thur and its near neighbour, Doagh, lie to the north of Glenfarne village in northwest Leitrim. The map suggested a road or track ascending from the sw, and it proved to have a surprisingly good surface before our progress was barred by a gate, just after a hair-pin bend at G971394 (Point A). This track took much of the donkey work out of the walk, as we were now at the 320m contour.
Climbing over the gate, we continued along the track for about 10 minutes, but there seems to be little advantage in doing so, as it merely contours the hillside without gaining you much height. We struck out NE across snow-covered heather, aiming for the summit's distinctive knoll.
Thur's stone-slabbed and heathery summit has good views, particularly east to Lough MacNean. The vast plateau of moorland to the south of Glenfarne looked worthy of exploration, but near-neighbour Doagh somewhat fails the beauty test.
Returning to the start by the same route took a little over an hour.
Curiously, as we were taking off our boots at the car, a vehicle came up the hill towards us, did a u-turn, and headed straight back down.
It was one of those Google cars that are taking shots of every road in the country (and ultimately, the world) for their Google Maps website.
Extraordinary to think we should encounter them in such an out-of the-way place.

Point A: G971 394

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