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Experimental track of a trip to Keeper Hill and 2 nearby summits.

Track 2171 simon3 a day ago
This may not be at all an optimum route. walk, Length:20.8km, Climb: 859m, Area: Knockfune, Shannon (Ireland) Knockfune, Knockane, Keeper Hill

Thank you MV

Forum: General ahendroff a day ago
At 5.42pm today I completed my 404th and final Arderin. Long journey to here. Delighted & overjoyed. Humbled at the challenge also. And thanks Mountain Views for that. Gougane Barra will always be...

Varied, strenuous wild Bluestacks walk.

Track 2209 simon3 3 days ago
This varied route explores the two Ardnageers, Croaghbane, C walk, Length:21.0km, Climb: 999m, Area: Ardnageer SW Top, Bluestack Mountains (Ireland)

Soarns Hill: Forested summit

Summit Comment slemish a day ago
Getting to the summit of Soarns Hill is difficult and the extensive forestry means that views are severely limited. But as it qualifies under MV prominence rules, off I went to climb it. I parked ...

Soarns Hill: Local summit visit

Summit Comment Harry Goodman a day ago
Climbed Soarns Hill to-day as one of the 100 listed hills nearest to my home. I used three5four0's very helpful route description. The following additional information may be useful. The second...

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Forum: General BleckCra 2 days ago
Thank you kevin carroll. If I can put a smile on that contrary face, the Matterhorn should be a cakewalk.

A circuit of the eastern Knockmeal hills

Track 2206 mcrtchly 4 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

Meenanea: Bump on ridge with good views.

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 3 days 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...

Re Main Area Display, logging

Forum: Suggestions simon3 2 days 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...

Walks Around Port 2

Track 2197 gerrym 5 days ago
http://youtu.be/jq7O1tarPuQ A second walk starting and fini walk, Length:17.0km, Climb: 578m, Area: Donegal SW (Ireland)

Cronamuck: Granite knob at the end of a ridge.

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 3 days 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 Cloon Horseshoe "mini Scavvy"?

Forum: General Conor74 2 days 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...
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Mizen/Sheeps Head Area
Maximum height for area: 407 metres,   Summits in area: 9,   Maximum prominence for area: 312 metres, OSI/LPS Maps: 84, 85, 88, 89 For all tops   Highest summit: Mount Gabriel, 407m
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Mount Gabriel Hill Cnoc Osta A name in Irish
(Ir. Cnoc Osta [logainm.ie], poss. 'hill of the encampment') Cork County In Carn List

Height: 407m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 88 Grid Reference: V93120 34862 This summit has been logged as climbed by 37 members
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Longitude: -9.541778, Latitude: 51.55681 Prominence: 312m,   Isolation: 8.1km,   Has trig pillar
ITM: 493093 534932,   GPS IDs, 6 char: MntGbr, 10 char: MntGbrl

Mount Gabriel was an important source of copper in the Early Bronze Age, with more than 30 mines having been found on its southern slopes, consisting of small tunnels dug into the mountainside. These are remarkably well preserved since they were mostly   Mount Gabriel is the highest hill in the Mizen/Sheeps Head area and the 798th highest in Ireland.
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Mount Gabriel in area Mizen/Sheeps Head, Ireland
Picture: Access road to giant golfballs		  
Access Rd to top
Short Summary created by paddyhillsbagger  9 Oct 2010 The Irish Aviation Authority have kindly provided an access road to their golfball shaped domes on the top of Mt Gabriel at V930356 (Point A) . The trig is only a short walk round the side of the first dome. You can drive up (as long as your car doesn't overheat like mine leaving me to walk the final bit before topping up with water) or walk. The views are magnificent on a clear day. Well worth it, regardless of method used.
Point A: V930 356

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Mount Gabriel in area Mizen/Sheeps Head, Ireland
Picture: Probably the easiest summit in Ireland?
There is a God and he left the gate open!
by jackill  3 Jun 2010 Wet wet wet, wet to the skin, wet to the bone, 100% water I was. But there was only one left. Will I? won't I?, sure I'll go and have a look at the Aviation authority roadway, the one marked on the map on the north side of the hill.Ah Jaysus! the gates open! how fast can I drive up and down,
4 minutes to climb 220 meters.
And best of all, someone left me a Beer.
The preacher Caeser Otway travelling in this area in 1822 wrote
"On my way to Bantry I passed the dark and lofty Mount Gabriel and took my way over a dreary, comfortless tract of country.
Let no one say after looking at these moors , studded over with cabins crowded with children, pigs, goats, cocks and hens that a poor Irishman is not an industrious creature.
Men,women, boys and girls toiling up the mountainside with seaweed and sea sand,in baskets on their backs.
See them reclaiming from amidst rocks and bogs, patches of ground on which to cultivate their only food, the potato; And no one witnessing this struggle of human industry against nature, but must acknowlege that the Irish can be industious."
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Mount Gabriel in area Mizen/Sheeps Head, Ireland
Picture: Entrance to one of the Bronze Age mines		  
A Bronze Age Hive of Activity
by kernowclimber  26 Nov 2011 Bishop Dives Downes, visiting Mount Gabriel around the turn of the C18th, a place of great natural beauty with extensive views over Roaringwater Bay, described the mountain as ‘… a haunt of wolves; there are no trees nor shelter except rocks and bogs’. He would have been unaware that the mountain has much more to commend it than just fantastic scenery. For scattered amid the rocks and blanket bog of the mountain’s eastern and southern slopes, are the remains of over 30 individual copper mines driven in sedimentary (old red sandstone) copper beds invaded by quartz veins. These date from between 1700 and 1500 BC in the Bronze Age.

Ireland was one of the main sources of Bronze Age copper which was used in the production of various metal items including axes, the high status symbols of their day, and Mount Gabriel was one of a number of sites that were once hives of industrial activity. Excavations here by one of Europe’s foremost Bronze Age archaeologists, William O’Brien of Galway University, has revealed evidence of mine workings, spoil heaps, mineral processing areas, stone axe manufacture and wood preparation areas. Artefacts recovered from inside the Mount Gabriel workings include smooth oval shaped stone mauls used to excavate the rock. These would have been specially transported inland from the coast some 4 km away. Fragments of wooden tools were also recovered (predominantly of oak, hazel and alder) and were identified as picks, wedges, axe hafts, withies (used as binding on stone axes) shovels and planks. Significant quantities of charcoal was found both inside the workings and on the spoil heaps close to the entrances. The workings at Mount Gabriel were excavated by means of fire setting that consumed vast amounts of round-wood felled in the immediate vicinity and such activity led to the beginning of the destruction of Ireland’s ancient tree cover.

Parking at the Barnancleeve Gap, visitors to the mountain can find the mines, a series of inclined drifts to the right of the small stream that flows down the eastern slope, betrayed by the proximity of fragments of broken quartz where the mineral was processed. If you are lucky you can find the broken remains of maul stones used to ‘spall’ (crush) the mineralised rock on anvil stones. The mines range in size from 1m to 12m in depth; some are flooded or choked with peat but one or two are still open and, although a little muddy, it is possible to crouch through the narrow entrance void and travel back through time into these ancient workings. These evocative caverns bear the unmistakeable scalloped patterning of workings excavated using fire setting to break the rock and the walls are streaked in places with the tell tale turquoise copper carbonate mineralisation.

Please take only pictures and do not disturb the archaeology. For more information see O’Brien, W., 'Mount Gabriel: Bronze Age Mining In Ireland', Galway University Press, 1994.
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Mount Gabriel in area Mizen/Sheeps Head, Ireland
Picture: Taken from the west in the Cahas.
Illustrating how it bulks over the surrounding land.
by simon3  1 Nov 2012 Mount Gabriel is very distinctive high ground in the Mizen/ Sheeps Head area, particularly because of the white radomes on top.

This picture was taken from Knocknagree 25.80km away in the Cahas,
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Does driving up count?
by exaisle  2 Sep 2010 I'll be honest, it was 25degrees and the sun was beating down. Tipp and Waterford were on the field and I could hear the clash of the ash over the car radio.

So I said feckit, and drove up.

Fantastic views of the surrounding area though...well worth the effort or the petrol, whichever way you get there.
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