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Inishowen Area , NW: Urris Subarea
Feature count in area: 27, by county: Donegal: 27, Derry: 1, of which 1 is in both Derry and Donegal, OSI/LPS Maps: 2, 3, 4, 6, 7
Highest Place: Slieve Snaght 614.6m

Starting Places (43) in area Inishowen:
Adderville Upper, Barnes Bend, Bunacrick, Butlers Bridge, Carnaghan Presbyterian Church, Castruse Upper, Craignacoolagh, Craignamuck, Croaghglengad West, Crockavishane South, Diarmuid and Gráinne's Bed, Doherty's Dún, Dunree Bay Carpark, EEl Hole, Effishmore Upper, Evishbreedy Bridge, Five Fingers Strand, Gap of Mamore Grotto, Gap of Mamore Road, Gap of Mamore Viewpoint, Glack, Glasmullan, Golan Bridge Track, Goorey Hill, Grania's Gap, Gransha Árd, Green Hill, Leamacrossan Hill East, Lisfannon Beach, Lough Shivnagh, Lough Turk North, Magilligan Point View, Meenabroagh, Meenyollan River, Moor House, Mullagh, Pincher's Corner, Rashenny, Roosky Upper, Rowantree Hill, St Michael's Church, Stroove Beach, Tullagh Beach

Summits & other features in area Inishowen:
Cen: Slieve Snaght: Damph 420m, Slieve Main 514m, Slieve Snaght 614.6m
N: Malin: Croaghglengad 259m, Crockalough 282m, Soldiers hill 174m
NE: North East Inishowen: Crockavishane 322m, Crocknasmug 327.5m, Grinlieve 371m
NW: Urris: Binnion 250m, Bulbin 494m, Coolcross Hill 291m, Croaghcarragh 400m, Crockmain 460m, Dunaff Hill 230m, Mamore Hill 423m, Raghtin More 502m, Slievekeeragh 389m, Urris Hills 417m
S: Iskaheen: Crockglass 397m, Eskaheen Mountain 418m, Greenan Mountain 241m, Holywell Hill 260m, Inch Top 222m, Leamacrossan Hill 392m, Mouldy Hill 312m, Scalp Mountain 484m

Note: this list of places may include island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
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Dunaff Hill, 230m Hill Cnoc Dhún Damh A name in Irish,
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poss. Ir. ‡Cnoc Dhún Damh [PDT], 'hill of Dún Damh or fort of
stags/oxen’
, Donegal County in Ulster province, in Binnion Lists, Dunaff Hill is the 1340th highest place in Ireland. Dunaff Hill is the second most westerly summit in the Inishowen area.
Grid Reference C30900 48700, OS 1:50k mapsheet 2,3
Place visited by: 23 members, recently by: Meenat, eamonoc, trostanite, finkey86, Fergalh, Lucky1, IainT, pearnett, chalky, gerrym, David-Guenot, mark-rdc, jmcg, Garmin, AntrimRambler
I visited this place: NO (You need to be a logged-in member for this.)
Longitude: -7.514512, Latitude: 55.284228, Easting: 230900, Northing: 448700, Prominence: 215m,  Isolation: 4.3km
ITM: 630842 948678
Bedrock type: Whitish quartzite with pebble beds, (Slieve Tooey Quartzite Formation)

  Short or GPS IDs, 6 char: DnfHl, 10 char: Dunaf Hil

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Picture: View E over Rockstown Harbour andTullagh Bay to Binnion from Dunaff Hill
Harry Goodman on Dunaff Hill
by Harry Goodman 15 Oct 2009
Although listed by MV as Dunaff Hill this small height is also a headland and this is what gives it character. A good vantage point to see it is from the viewpoint and car park at the Gap of Mamore Mam Vp (C318 442). Starting at A (C325 486) I walked down to and along the beach past a small harbour. From here I climbed NW around the the cliff edge of the headland followed it around before turning S to walk over several cairned tops including the high point at a princely 230m ! The beauty of this walk is that it is a strollers hill which allows lots of time to look around and take in the scenery which is in abundance. To the NE is Ireland's most northerly point at Malin Head, while to the SE is the line of hills from Raghtin More to the Urris Ridge. Directly E across the sands at Tullagh Bay is tiny Binnion another low but worthwhile climb. Once across the high point I headed down S to cross a small stream and then turned ESE to pick up a lane at B (C303 475) which I followed out to the road where a left turn and 1.7k took me back to my start point after a leisurely 2 hours. I combined this walk with a walk up nearby Bulbin earlier in the day and together they gave me a very satisfactory day out. (See also my comments on Bulbin) Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/1021/comment/4206/
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Picture: Standing on the summit
Bothanvarra Sea Stack
by IainMiller 29 Aug 2014
The 70m high sea stack approx 100m off Dunaff Head was climbed on 24/08/14. It took uber calm seas to allow a safe approach and there is plenty rock on the stack for many more routes.

http://iain-miller.blogspot.ie/2014/08/dunaff-head-inishowen.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNw6wNKpqQQ Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/1021/comment/17655/
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Picture: bothanvarra from dunaff hill
Cliff top stroll
by three5four0 17 Jun 2010
What a fine little hill! North Donegal and Inishowen seems to be blessed with more than its fair share of gems like this.

After asking around locally for a place to park, we were directed to the small harbour mentioned by Harry Goodman in his post. The lane way down to the harbour at C (C323 487) is tight with only one place to pass another vehicle, and with the local farmers using the harbour, it would be wise to check that the way ahead was clear before turning down into the lane.

There is room to park a car or maybe two and leave plenty of space for others using the harbour. When we were there, a couple of weeks ago, there was an old boat that had been hauled up into the parking / turning area, cutting the space down for parking.

From the harbour walk along the beach for a short distance, and then take to the hillside where there is a gap in the fence. A faint path follows the edge of the cliffs up hill, past, well down then up out of a sharp re-entrant, from the edge of the cliff there is a good view of a sea stack, which may tempt some adventurous sea kayaking climbers to its very own Eiger like sea-face.

There are two 230 metre ring contours, vying for summit status. Both have cairns and great views from them, but it was only when we were back at the car did I notice the satmap gps had recored the first top as being 237 metres. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/1021/comment/5882/
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Picture: Zoom on Dunaff Hill from the Urris Hills
Between land and sea
by David-Guenot 16 Dec 2013
Climbed Dunaff on 5. November 2013, shortly after having climbed nearby Binnion, via the route described by Harry Goodman and Three5Four0. Nothing much to add to their worthwhile comments, except maybe that caution would be required on the short section of the faint grassy path leading down the re-entrant described by Three5Four0, especially on wet conditions. The rest of the walk is a nice stroll with a few steeper parts, which combines the pleasure of hillwalking -with rewarding views all the way up and down- and that of being close to the ocean and hearing the waves washed down the cliffs. I did not spend much time along the cliffs near the summit area though, as the wind grew stronger, bringing in some rain which turned into hail as I reached the top, but hopefully it did not last. Allow about 1h30 return from the pier. The picture was taken the previous day from the top of the Urris Hills. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/1021/comment/15283/
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Dunaff is fenced OFF!
by ucampbell 8 Jul 2024
Dunaff
I was expecting a good late evening walk as I had gone up nearby Binnion yesterday and loved it. Using the last comment (Oct 2023) as parking and start directions I started up the hill via the beach. There is no gap in the fence and I struggled over the fence at a point with no Barbed wire. There is is still a very clear path up hill. There is now NO way over the Double barbed fence all along the cliff edge, I edged along the fence to try and access the hill and found one point I could have got between the fence and an Electric fence, I decided if whoever had put up all this fencing very recently was preventing walkers access I'd be better giving up, I returned to the car and tried to find a person to ask. As the previous comment had said he came down by the Masts I thought I might get information. I found a local who said Yes all the farmers had fenced off the Hill? He did say I might get access by the masts if I spoke to Patsy the good land owner, I might go back and try but am sincerely disappointed, this hill has no cattle or sheep on it's heights and I suspect very few walkers access it. Please advise if my information is wrong and there is another permissable access route. Una Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/1021/comment/24233/
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