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Slieve Bloom Area   W: Kinnitty Subarea
Place count in area: 12, OSI/LPS Maps: 54 
Highest place:
Arderin, 527m
Maximum height for area: 527 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 420 metres,

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Cumber Hill Hill Offaly County in Leinster Province, in Binnion List, Thick flaggy sandstone, thin siltstone Bedrock

Height: 316m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 54 Grid Reference: N18885 02159
Place visited by 16 members. Recently by: Colin Murphy, Bernieor, madfrankie, ceadeile, melohara, High-King, peterturner, chalky, aidand, eamonoc, kernowclimber, mcrtchly, sandman, paddyhillsbagger, Fergalh
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Longitude: -7.719018, Latitude: 53.070019 , Easting: 218885, Northing: 202159 Prominence: 118m,  Isolation: 1.9km
ITM: 618830 702192,   GPS IDs, 6 char: CmbrHl, 10 char: Cumber Hil
Bedrock type: Thick flaggy sandstone, thin siltstone, (Clonaslee Member)

Cumber Hill is the 1121th highest place in Ireland. Cumber Hill is the most westerly summit in the Slieve Bloom area.

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Cumber Hill  in area Slieve Bloom, Ireland
Picture: The summit area looking east
 
Easy ramble
Short Summary created by Colin Murphy, aidand  6 Jan 2022
Take the road south out of Kinnitty in the direction of Roscrea. Take the first turn left. Drive along this road for two miles until you see an entrance to the forest on the right. There is room to park a few cars here. Follow the forest road, keeping right at the Y junction. Ignore the next two right hand turns. Take the third turn right. This will bring you close to the summit, which is a grassy mound just off the forest road. Car to car takes less than an hour.
As of Jan 2022, the forest track ends and becomes a muddy trail for about 200m and to access the high point requires a trudge up through a recently-felled forest, over very uneven ground. The actual high point is difficult to pinpoint, which could be any of several rough bumps in the boggy terrain. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1124/comment/15368/
 
MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Cumber Hill  in area Slieve Bloom, Ireland
Picture: Summit Tree
Flat Top
by paddyhillsbagger  15 Feb 2014
Was a little disappointed when I got to the flattish top of Cumber Hill and looked around for signs of a Hill Fort which I failed to find. There were a series of ditches which could have been the earthworks but no signs of stones. I did find 2 deer happily chewing on the heather and a tree at the cross roads of fences which serves as a suitable summit point. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1124/comment/15856/
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Cumber Hill  in area Slieve Bloom, Ireland
Picture: Cumber Hill hillfort earthworks1
 
Hillfort earthworks1
by ceadeile  10 Apr 2019
Cumber Hill Hillfort earthworks1 Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1124/comment/20482/
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Cumber Hill  in area Slieve Bloom, Ireland
Picture: Cumber Hill hillfort earthworks2
Hillfort earthworks 2
by ceadeile  10 Apr 2019
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Stone age hill fort remains on summit
by Fergalh  1 Feb 2014
Head south from Kinnity village and take first turn right, eventually you will come to a white house on its own with a track behind. Drive past this and ignore turn to left soon you will come to forest entrance on right hand side (N1994601580 starA). Park here and climb gate and follow forest track all the way to the end of the stone track. Than turn right and follow grassy track around 200 metres to fence. Proceed through gap in fence and turn right and walk up through through field around 200 metres to summit ,The remains of old hill fort are faintly visible here. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1124/comment/15812/
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Cumber Hill  in area Slieve Bloom, Ireland
Picture: View of Carroll's Hill.
 
Nice views thanks to tree-felling
by Colin Murphy  6 Jan 2022
Thanks to recent forest clearance, at least the views from Cumber have improved, if not the ease of access. This is a wintry view from near the top looking towards Carroll's Hill. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1124/comment/23376/
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