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Croagh Patrick Area   S: Owenmore Subarea
Place count in area: 12, OSI/LPS Maps: 30, 31, 37, 38, CBE, CBW, MSW 
Highest place:
Croagh Patrick, 764m
Maximum height for area: 764 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 639 metres,

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Oughty Hill Hill , also Stuacín an extra EastWest name in Irish Mayo County in Connacht Province, in Binnion List, Pelite, psammite, limestone, tuff Bedrock

Height: 333m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 38 Grid Reference: L93095 75700
Place visited by 9 members. Recently by: markwallace, eamonoc, FrankMc1964, Fergalh, Garmin, sandman, chalky, dez, madfrankie
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Longitude: -9.620167, Latitude: 53.720151 , Easting: 93095, Northing: 275700 Prominence: 146m,  Isolation: 3.7km
ITM: 493068 775716,   GPS IDs, 6 char: OghtHl, 10 char: Oughty Hil
Bedrock type: Pelite, psammite, limestone, tuff, (Bouris Formation)

Oughty Hill is the 1090th highest place in Ireland. Oughty Hill is the second most southerly summit in the Croagh Patrick area.

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In the Shadow. .. by sandman   (Show all for Oughty Hill )
 
MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Oughty Hill  in area Croagh Patrick, Ireland
Picture: The lower (less well preserved) cathair looking towards the Sheeffry Hills.
 
A minor summit and a walk among ruins
by markwallace  15 Mar 2024
A small but rough and wild hill. There are houses along the road to the south. Like Sandman, I summited from that direction. In the other directions, particularly north and west, the hill is surrounded by empty bog and some forest.

From the summit I could see to the west a round stone structure, low but pretty big at L922 756 starC. This was marked as "cathairs" on the new EW Mweelrea and The Reek map. There is a second cathair, in poorer repair and not as apparent from the summit, just metres away from the first. I went down for a look and to make a proper hike of this hill. I'm not sure of the provenance of these structures and couldn't find anything online.

There are other stone ruins nearby on the west side of the hill too - like many hillside locations in the west, evidently much busier once upon a time than now. A nice and atmospheric place for a stroll on a fine spring day. With the bog, jumbled boulders and ruined buildings, it felt like a quintessential west of Ireland landscape. Glad I finally made it out to this unsung member of my Local 100!

On the way back to my car I met a farmer who called this hill "Cruckaveen", which corresponds to the Croaghavin found on the EW map.

EW notes a small parking area far up the Owenwee Bog road to the north of the hill at L944 781 starD. This area being houseless bog, access would presumably be straightforward, but it is a longer route and probably a bit of a slog. Doing it from the south as I did is a short ascent, but there is farmland along the base of the hill so access is not guaranteed. The farmer I met had no issue with it though. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1109/comment/24157/
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