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Varied, strenuous wild Bluestacks walk.

Track 2209 simon3 11 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 11 hours 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 16 hours 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 12 hours 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...

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Track 2206 mcrtchly a day ago
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Carrigawaddra: The Loo valley: yes you can!, but don't...

Summit Comment thomas_g a day 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...

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Track 2197 gerrym 2 days ago
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Agnew's Hill: Shapely scarply Sallagh Braes

Summit Comment simon3 6 days 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...

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Track 2204 Onzy 3 days ago
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Good Sun coming. Bluestacks anyone?

Forum: General simon3 3 days ago
Anyone interested in walking in the Bluestacks (Ardnageers and nearby) on Sun or early Mon? Contact group@mountainviews.ie

Tully Mountain: Mwelrea from the Sea

Summit Comment Geansai a week ago
Good view of the highest summit in Connaught on the way up Tully Mountain.
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Dublin/Wicklow Area   Wicklow Mountains Subarea
Maximum height for area: 925 metres,   Summits in area: 89,   Maximum prominence for area: 905 metres, OSI/LPS Maps: 28B, 49, 50, 55, 56, 61, 62 For all tops   Highest summit: Lugnaquillia, 925m

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Wicklow Mountains:   Annagh Hill 454mBallinacor Mountain 531mBallinafunshoge 480mBallineddan Mountain 652mBallycumber Hill 431mBallycurragh Hill 536mBallyteige 447mBaltinglass Hill 382mBarranisky 280mBenleagh 689mBlack Hill 602mBrockagh Mountain 557mBrockagh Mountain SE Top 470mCamaderry 698mCamenabologue 758mCamenabologue SE Top 663mCarrick Mountain 381mCarrickashane Mountain 508mCarrigleitrim 408mCarriglineen Mountain 455mCarrigshouk 573mCarrigvore 682mChurch Mountain 544mCloghernagh 800mCollon Hill 238mConavalla 734mCorriebracks 531mCorrigasleggaun 794mCroaghanmoira 664mCroghan Kinsella 606mCushbawn 400mDerrybawn Mountain 474mDjouce 725mDuff Hill 720mFananierin 426mGravale 718mGreat Sugar Loaf 501mKeadeen Mountain 653mKirikee Mountain 474mKnocknacloghoge 534mLakeen 357mLittle Sugar Loaf 342mLobawn 636mLugduff 652mLugduff SE Top 637mLuggala 595mLugnagun 446mLugnaquillia 925mMaulin 570mMoanbane 703mMoneyteige North 427mMullacor 657mMullaghcleevaun 849mMullaghcleevaun East Top 790mMuskeagh Hill 397mPreban Hill 389mScarr 641mSeskin 344mSilsean 698mSleamaine 430mSlieve Maan 550mSlievecorragh 418mSlievefoore 414mSlievemaan 759mSorrel Hill 599mSpinans Hill 409mSpinans Hill SE Top 400mStoney Top 714mStookeen 420mTable Mountain 701mTinoran Hill 312mTomaneena 681mTonduff 642mTonelagee 817mTonelagee NE Top 668mTrooperstown Hill 430mWar Hill 686m
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Baltinglass Hill Hill Cnoc Bhealach Conglais A name in Irish
(poss. Ir. ‡Cnoc Bhealach Conglais [PDT], 'hill of Bealach Conglais') Wicklow County In Binnion List

Height: 382m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 61 Grid Reference: S88505 89280 This summit has been logged as climbed by 44 members
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Longitude: -6.684077, Latitude: 52.947333 Prominence: 227m,   Isolation: 3.5km,   Has trig pillar
ITM: 688436 689315,   GPS IDs, 6 char: BltnHl, 10 char: BltnglsHil

There is a hillfort on summit named Rathcoran and a second one to NW. The entry in PNCW for Rathcoran refers to an article on The Excavation of a Burial Cairn on Baltinglass Hill in PRIA xlvi (1941), p. 221. This makes it clear that Baltinglass Hill   Baltinglass Hill is the 869th highest summit in Ireland. Baltinglass Hill is the second most westerly summit in the Dublin/Wicklow area.
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Baltinglass Hill in area Dublin/Wicklow, Ireland
Picture: Grassy slopes lead to the summit		  
Mighty ringfort on a pleasant hill
Short Summary created by wicklore  29 Apr 2011 Baltinglass Hill is a pleasant grassy summit overlooking the village of Baltinglass on the N81 in Wicklow. It is grazed by cattle, sheep and horses all the way to the summit. The summit trig pillar sits just outside a huge ringfort. The ringfort is over 20 metres in diameter with massive intact walls about 5 feet thick and 5 feet high. The approach involves negotiating a field of gorse but is possible with patience. There are good views east to the Glen of Imaal with Keadeen and Lugnaquilla being particularly prominent.

Park to the right of the graveyard in Baltinglass at approximately S871 887 (Point A). Follow an overgrown track out onto the hillside and keep to the right while heading uphill. Go through a couple of grazing fields, then a gorse field before the final few hundred metres haul over close cropped grass and heather to the summit.
Point A: S871 887

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Picture: View of Baltinglass Hill from the village.
by wicklore  14 Sep 2008 As I drove around Baltinglass Hill looking for a likely approach point, I asked a farmer unloading sheep about access. He offered that I could park in his field and head up through his farmland. I said that I hoped to find a more public route, and he said that there was a lane beside the graveyard in Baltinglass that gave access onto the hill. He said it was ok to head up the hill that way. I found an overgrown track to the right of the graveyard at approximately S871 887. I followed this and in a few minutes entered the fields below Baltinglass Hill. I headed up towards a large cross and antennae at approx 878 892 (Point B). I reached a field of painful gorse which stopped a direct uphill route, and much retracing of steps was needed to find a way through.
Reaching the cross I paused to look back down into Baltinglass and across to Tinoran Hill. Beyond the cross were more fields inhabited by cows, sheep and horses. I had to walk through them and I wondered if this was really the more public route the farmer had in mind.
The trig point of Baltinglass Hill was about another 700 metres beyond the cross. I enjoyed reaching it as I discovered the fascinating prehistoric hillfort there. The stone wall of the hillfort is a complete circle up to about 5 foot high in places. The wall itself is about 12 feet wide and I roughly measured the inside diameter at 60-70 feet. It is big! Within the circle are the remains of a few burial chambers. The weather was deteriorating rapidly and the views out to the east were disappearing. I just had time to say goodbye to Keadeen before she was engulfed in the rain clouds that would shortly reach me. To the south the Blackstairs were also cloud covered. In good weather I imagine this would be a fantastic viewpoint across the Wicklow hills.
There are no walker tracks and with the arrival of rain and cloud I used my compass to head back to the cross. I dropped down northwest to the road and walked back to my car.
I have no doubt that there are other routes available that don’t cross so much farmland. The forestry to the northwest of the summit might offer an approach. I would recommend that permission is sought every time before heading up from the graveyard side.
Point B: S878 892
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Picture: View to the east		  
by Dec_Alcock  11 Mar 2010 The best access point for Baltinglass hill is along the laneway to the right of the graveyard. This has always been used for public access for the hill and permission is not necessary. This leads onto a grassy field below the cross which is easily traversed in a few minutes. A gate leads into a more rugged gorse covered field. There used to be a pathway, or sheep track, here which led directly up to the cross however this has become badly overgrown with gorse and is not recommended, by walking to the left around this area there is a much easier route. To reach the summit walk to the right along the ridge. From this point the walk is much easier as what were previously fields of heather, gorse and a fern has been reclaimed as grassland for sheep. While this makes walking less difficult unfortunately it has reduced the wilderness aspect of the hillside.
The hill fort and passage graves are located on the summit or “pinnacle” as it is known locally and are extimated to be approximately 5000 years old. They can be reached in 30 to 40 minutes. The site was first excavated in 1941and the surrounding wall is modern with the original having been robbed for wall building. The site contains remains of 3 small passage-tombs built at different times and partly-overlying each other, plus two single-chambered tombs. The view from the top is spectacular with Keadeen. Lugnaquilla and Mount Leinster among the peaks visible.
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Picture: Looking North from Baltinglass Hill.
At last, my 100th Local Summit
by simon3  12 Aug 2010 Sometime in 1969 or 70 I started climbing the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains, some of which are in what I would now call my Local 100.
I have climbed many of the higher ones many times and this year made a push on the more far-flung places such as Oriel Hill and Carrigroe. My final Local 100 was Baltinglass Hill which I enjoyed with two other veterans: madfrankie and wicklore. So having completed the challenge I now make a further claim: that of the slowest rate of climbing my local tops at around 2.5/ year. Beat that, young turks.
This panoramic view from the SW of the Wicklow Mountains shows Keadeen as the darker bump on the skyline about a quarter in from the right. Lugnaquillia is further away and just visible behind it. The apparently straight wall is that of the ringfort near the summit. The panoramic nature of the picture makes it appear straight, however in reality it is a circular enclosure.
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Picture: Part of the Hillfort on Baltinglass Hill		  
by wicklore  14 Sep 2008 This photo shows a part of the huge intact hillfort beside the summit of Baltinglass Hill. I roughly measured the walls at 4-5 feet high, 12-15 feet thick and the interior diameter at 60-70 feet wide. The hillfort on nearby Tinoran Hill is almost buried, so this came as a huge surprise!
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Picture: The summit of Baltinglass Hill is unspoiled by walker activity
by wicklore  14 Sep 2008 This is the view looking north east from the summit of Baltinglass Hill. The weather deteriorated rapidly before I could take out map 56 to identify the hills I could see. However I think the hill in the distance on the right is Spinians Hill.
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