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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

Summits in area Mizen/Sheeps Head:

Caher Mountain 338m

Cnoicín an tSeabhaic 160m

Derrylahard East 301m

Derrylahard East Hill Cork County In Binnion List

Height: 301m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 85,88 Grid Reference: V98300 41100 This summit has been logged as climbed by 5 members
I have climbed this summit: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.)

Longitude: -9.468923, Latitude: 51.613814 Prominence: 176m, Isolation: 8.1km
ITM: 498272 541169, GPS IDs, 6 char: DrylEs, 10 char: DrylhrEast

This peak is unnamed on OS maps. It lies on the boundary of the townlands of Glanlough and Derrylahard. Any information on the correct name of this hill would be welcome. Derrylahard East is the 962nd highest summit in Ireland. Derrylahard East is the most northerly summit and also the second most easterly in the Mizen/Sheeps Head area.
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Derrylahard East in area Mizen/Sheeps Head, Ireland

Picture: Looking over the summit to a post on the Sheep's Head Way

Not very hard

by Peter Walker 14 Jun 2012 Imagine my surprise to be the first to comment upon this veritable Matterhorn of the Mizen peninsula (he jests)...anyway, having been practically blown over on getting out of the car at Mizen Head itself, a quick Plan B was required. The Sheep's Head Way runs over Derrylahard East, and can be used from either of the access points on the road to the north. I chose (988 419) where there is room on the other side of the tarmac to leave the car.

It would take a fair amount of talent to go astray, as the track meanders up a gentle southerly incline to meet the forest (a bit wet initially) before striking more purposefully uphill alongside the trees. After a little dip the track passes a few yards north of the highest point, marked by a few rocks of either natural or unnatural origin (see photo). If the mist that marked my visit is absent there is probably an unremarkable northward view; the prospect to the south (to the sea) is probably finer, but owing to the adjacency of the forest only a Spring-Heeled Jack(ill)-type creature is ever likely to see it.

The whole exercise requires an absence of 30-45 minutes from the car.

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