Cookies. This website uses cookies, which are small text files that the website puts on your computer to facilitate operation. Cookies help us provide a better service to you. They are used to track general user traffic information and to help the website function properly.

Click to hide this notice for 30 days.
Welcome to MountainViews
If you want to use the website often please enrol (quick and free) at top right.
Overview
Detail
Zoom: ??
For more map options click on any overview map area or any detail map feature.
Detail Map Features
Showing 3 items:
Cave Hill 368m,
Tracks:
4239, 6km 3048, 4km
Find Suggested Walks
Find hill, mountain, island, coastal feature.
Videos


Recent Contributions
Get Notifications

Met Eireann launches 10-day mountain forecast

Forum: General Colin Murphy 4 hours ago
The Met Eireann app now features a forecast specifically for hillwalkers and climbers, where you can access the forecast for a good selection of individual mountains in the different provinces. Ap...

A very tough outing in Glen Etive

Track 4888 eamonoc 7 hours ago
With the prospect of some good weather in Scotland headed up to Glen Etive, having previously climbed Ben Starav a few... walk, Len: 28.5km, Climb: 2901m, Area: Glen Etive to Glen Lochy (Britain) Bei

Knockalla: Anticlockwise loop walk.

Summit Comment Wilderness 18 hours ago
I parked in Glenvar in-between the school and church and accessed the hills by taking the lane which leads up to the cross and grotto. 26303525. I walked from the north east top to the liste...

Bloody Foreland: Easy going walk.

Summit Comment Wilderness a day ago
I parked in the view point car park at Point E. From here the best way to access this hill is to walk down the main road a bit , and then turn right up a lane that leads to a small transmitte...

Tonduff: Some nice views, but unexciting summit

Summit Comment michaelseaver 2 days ago
Climbed Tonduff as part of circuit that included War Hill and Djouce. Parked in Crone Woods and followed the forest paths towards Maulin, then cut across a boggy path to Tonduff East Top and ...

Windfarm eases access

Track 4886 Colin Murphy 3 days ago
Approaching from Belhavel Lough, Google Maps directed me up a badly deteriorated road – only drivable with care t... walk, Len: 9.2km, Climb: 532m, Area: Lackagh Mountain, Dartry Mountains (Irela|...

Slieve Carn: Working Bog and Wind Farm

Summit Comment TommyV 2 days ago
Having read the comments about the approach from the East side, I followed a warren of roads on the West side of the hill and ended up parking at M29230 89101. From here I followed the approa...

Carranarah: Electric Dreams

Summit Comment TommyV 2 days ago
Followed the route mentioned by three5four0. The lane appears to be quite overgrown in parts now, but it's actually easy enough to push through. There is an extensive network of electric fenc...

Access via rocky trail

Track 4887 Colin Murphy 3 days ago
Parking for a couple of cars at start point. Continue N up tarred road, and around a bend, watching for a stony track... walk, Len: 5.7km, Climb: 401m, Area: Benbo, Dartry Mountains (Ireland) Benbo||

Bockagh Hill: Short but Hard Bag.

Summit Comment TommyV 2 days ago
Took the approach mentioned by Fergalh. There is room to squeeze a car at the mast. Then head North up the road for a few hundred metres looking for the summit cross on the left. Once you see...

Minneapolis: Minnihaha creek walk

Track 4885 Onzy 3 days ago
Urban park in Minneapolis... walk, Len: 3.1km, Climb: 61m, Area: Unid, Unid () ||

Mullaghanoe: Forest harvesting and mast compound

Summit Comment TommyV 2 days ago
The route already mentioned seems to be the only logical way to approach this very bland hill. I drove as far as far as a forest barrier and even though it was open I still decided to walk fr...
Conditions and Info
Use of MountainViews is governed by conditions and a privacy policy.
Read general information about the site.
Opinions in material here are not necessarily endorsed by MountainViews.
Hillwalking is a risk sport. Information in comments, walks, shared GPS tracks or about starting places may not be accurate for example as regards safety or access permission. You are responsible for your safety and your permission to walk.
See the credits and list definitions.
Recent Items   RSS Feed for Recent Items.
MV Facebook page.   Visit our Facebook page.
Video display
Belfast Hills Area   N: Belfast Hills North Subarea
Place count in area: 9, OSI/LPS Maps: 15, 20, 21 
Highest place: Divis, 478m
Maximum height for area: 478 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 380 metres,

Places in area Belfast Hills:
E: Belfast Hills East:   Cairngaver 217mOuley Hill 186mScrabo Hill 160m
N: Belfast Hills North:   Carnmoney Hill 231.1mCave Hill 368mDivis 478mSlievetrue 312m
SE: Strangford & Portaferry:   Ballywhite Hill 101mCastlemahon Mountain 128m

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
Rating graphic.
Cave Hill Hill Binn Uamha A name in Irish, also Binn Mhadagáin an extra name in Irish Ir. Binn Uamha [DUPN], ‘peak of the cave’ Antrim County in NI and in Ulster Province, in no lists, Olivine basalt lava Bedrock

Height: 368m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 15 Grid Reference: J32336 79719
Place visited by 90 members. Recently by: Florence, Jai-mckinney, Oscar-mckinney, Seamy13, moggy40, headspace, Paddym99, TommyMc, garybuz, markwallace, Pepe, reidyden, Combat_Monkey, trostanite, Dave68
I have visited this place: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.)

Longitude: -5.950682, Latitude: 54.648237 , Easting: 332336, Northing: 379719 Prominence: 94m,  Isolation: 3.5km
ITM: 732256 879712,   GPS IDs, 6 char: CvHl, 10 char: Cave Hill
Bedrock type: Olivine basalt lava, (Lower Basalt Formation)

Whilst Cave Hill is more than 100m lower than Divis, it is probably the best known and most striking of the Belfast Hills on account of its abrupt, craggy face. It is named after five caves which are visible in the cliff-face, some of which were occupied by hunter-gatherers in the Mesolithic era, approximately 7,000 years ago. A promontory fort at the cliff edge is known as McArt’s Fort, after Cormac Mac Airt, legendary king of Ireland. However, the true summit (for which the height and grid reference are cited here) is located several hundred metres west of the fort, but this spot does not have quite the same commanding view over Belfast Lough and the city. An alternative name for the hill is Binn Mhadagáin, after Madagán, a historical king of Ulster who died in AD 856.   Cave Hill is the second highest hill in the Belfast Hills area and the 1023th highest in Ireland. Cave Hill is the second most westerly summit in the Belfast Hills area.
Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1083/
COMMENTS for Cave Hill (Binn Uamha) 1 of 1  
Follow this place's comments
A short but rewarding climb .. by group   (Show all for Cave Hill (Binn Uamha))
 
Easy but satisfying hill .. by Aidy   (Show all for Cave Hill (Binn Uamha))
 
1000th Irish Summit. .. by sandman   (Show all for Cave Hill (Binn Uamha))
 
A Gerry McVeigh Film .. by CaptainVertigo   (Show all for Cave Hill (Binn Uamha))
 
MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Cave Hill (<i>Binn Uamha</i>) in area Belfast Hills, Ireland
Picture: Belfast from "Cave" Hill		  
Upper Hightown Road approach
by jlk  9 Jul 2015
Shorter, more immediate panorama track. Man-made cave with heavenly view. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1083/comment/18175/
Your Score: Very useful <<  >>Average
 
(End of comment section for Cave Hill (Binn Uamha).)

OSi logo OSNI/LPS logo
Some mapping:
Open Street Map
(Various variations used.)
British summit data courtesy:
Database of British & Irish Hills
(Creative Commons Licence)
MountainViews.ie, a Hill-walking Website for the island of Ireland. 2300 Summiteers, 1460 Contributors, Newsletter since 2007