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South East Midlands Area   SE: Brandon Hill Subarea
Place count in area: 34, OSI/LPS Maps: 28A, 28B, 47, 48, 49, 53, 54, 55, 59, 60 
Highest place:
Slievenamon, 720.2m
Maximum height for area: 720.2 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 711 metres,

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Croghan Hill Kilkenny County in Leinster Province, in Binnion List, Dark blue-grey slate, phyllite & schist Bedrock

Height: 365m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 68 Grid Reference: S66346 45538
Place visited by 27 members. Recently by: daitho9, benjimann9, Nailer1967, abcd, John.geary, Beti13, dregish, melohara, ceadeile, finkey86, Nakoz, conormcbandon, Barry28213, Pepe, bbarry2015
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Longitude: -7.022529, Latitude: 52.557535 , Easting: 266346, Northing: 145538 Prominence: 124m,  Isolation: 2.4km
ITM: 666280 645583,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Crg366, 10 char: Croghan
Bedrock type: Dark blue-grey slate, phyllite & schist, (Maulin Formation)

Croghan is the 1030th highest place in Ireland. Croghan is the second highest point in county Kilkenny.

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Croghan  in area South East Midlands, Ireland
Picture: View of the summit from the south.
 
Wooded summit with a few good views and large telecoms installations.
Short Summary created by simon3  8 Sep 2014
This is a mainly wooded summit with an extensive telecoms setup at the top. There are some views. Park at the forest entrance around S6711 4589 starA. The shortest way up is to walk back along the road to S 6694 4570 starB where there is a steep vehicle track leading directly to the summit.
It is also possible to walk along a forest road to the summit from the forest entrance. Enter the forest and take the first turn left. This route goes round the NW ridge that extends from the summit before reaching the top. Do not attempt to take any tempting short cut through the trees because there is extensive wind damage with blown-over trees sometimes covered in brambles. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1086/comment/15330/
 
A Public Access. .. by sandman   (Show all for Croghan )
 
A pleasant 6 kms walk on good forest tracks .. by ceadeile   (Show all for Croghan )
 
Nice views from Cross .. by eamonoc   (Show all for Croghan )
 
Straightforward short walk .. by katekat   (Show all for Croghan )
 
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