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Feature count in area: 12, by county: Offaly: 8, Laois: 5, of which 1 is in both Laois and Offaly,
OSI/LPS Maps: 54
Highest Place: Arderin 527m
Starting Places (1) in area Slieve Bloom: General's Road
Summits & other features in area Slieve Bloom: Cen: Wolftrap Mountain: Carroll's Hill 482m, Castleconor 407m, Stillbrook Hill 514m, Wolftrap Mountain 487m E: Capard: Baunreaghcong 508.2m, Ridge of Capard 482.1m S: Arderin: Arderin 527m, Barcam 484m, Farbreague 430m, Garraunbaun 406m W: Kinnitty: Cumber Hill 316m, Knocknaman 337m
Note: this list of places may include island features such as summits, but not
islands as such.
Cumber Hill, 316mHill
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, Offaly County in Leinster province, in Binnion Lists, Cumber Hill is the 1124th highest place in Ireland. Cumber Hill is the most westerly summit in the Slieve Bloom area.
Grid Reference N18885 02159,
OS 1:50k mapsheet 54 Place visited by: 20members, recently by: MichaelG55, Moirabourke, Arcticaurora, John.geary, Colin Murphy, Bernieor, madfrankie, ceadeile, melohara, High-King, peterturner, chalky, aidand, eamonoc, kernowclimber
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Short or GPS IDs, 6 char: CmbrHl, 10 char: Cumber Hil Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1124/
Gallery for Cumber Hill and surrounds
Summary
for Cumber Hill :
Easy ramble
Summary created by Colin Murphy, aidand
06 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.
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: mountainviews.ie/summit/1124/comment/15856/
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 (A (N19946 01580)). 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: mountainviews.ie/summit/1124/comment/15812/
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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: mountainviews.ie/summit/1124/comment/23376/
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