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Gull Island Island Donegal County in Ulster Province, in Irish Islands List, Whitish quartzite with pebble beds Bedrock

Reachable "On Foot " Y
Height: 95m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 10 Grid Reference: G61200 92400
Place visited by 1 members. Recently by: IainMiller
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Longitude: -8.603741, Latitude: 54.777983 , Easting: 161200, Northing: 392400
ITM: 561158 892390,   GPS IDs, 6 char: GlIsln, 10 char: Gul Island
Bedrock type: Whitish quartzite with pebble beds, (Slieve Tooey Quartzite Formation)


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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Gull Island  in area Donegal Islands, Ireland
Picture: Gull Island, climbers on pitch 3
 
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by IainMiller  21 Nov 2016
Gull Island is a huge sea stack sitting in the middle of a huge expanse of lonely, remote and uninhabited coastline. Stretching 12KM to the East and West of this stack is a wall of outrageous 300m sea cliffs, which effectively guard this coastline.

More details here, http://uniqueascent.ie/sp/directory/details/gull-island.
Film from the summit, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-401eb0gAVM. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1384/comment/18714/
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