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Sperrin Mountains Area   N: Claudy Hills Subarea
Place count in area: 64, OSI/LPS Maps: 12, 13, 6, 7, 8 
Highest place:
Sawel, 678m
Maximum height for area: 678 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 657 metres,

Places in area Sperrin Mountains:
E: Magherafelt Hills:   Slieve Gallion NE Top 493.6m
E: Magherafelt Hills:   Slieve Gallion 526.6m
N: Claudy Hills:   Crockdooish 321mCurradrolan Hill 270mEglish 277mLetterlogher 249mMullaghmeash Hill 244mSlieveboy 259mStraid Hill 303m
NE Cen: Glenelly North East:   Barnes Top 456mCraigagh Hill 460mCrockbrack 526.1mKnockanbane Mountain 441mMeenard Mountain 620mMeenard Mtn W Top 480mMullaghaneany 627mMullaghash 480mMullaghsallagh 485mOughtmore 569mSpelhoagh 568m
NE: Glenshane North:   Benbradagh 465mBoviel Top 454mCarn Hill 448mCarntogher 464mMoneyoran Hill 414m
NE: Glenshane South:   Bohilbreaga 478mCoolnasillagh Mountain 423mCorick Mountain 430mCrockalougha 407mMullaghmore 550mWhite Mountain 537m
NW Cen: Glenelly North West:   Dart Mountain 619mDart Mountain North-West Top 525mLearmount Mountain 489mLearmount Mountain South Top 492mMullaghasturrakeen 581mMullaghcarbatagh 517mMullaghclogha 635mMullaghclogher 572mMullaghdoo 568mSawel 678m
NW: Maheramason Hills:   Clondermot Hill 220mGortmonly Hill 218mSlievekirk 370m
SE Cen: Glenelly South East:   Carnanelly 562mCarnanelly West Top 503.4mMullaghbane 467mMullaghturk 416m
SE: Cookstown Hills:   Cregganconroe 300mFir Mountain 362mOughtmore 382m
SW Cen: Glenelly South West:   Clogherny Top 408mCraignamaddy 385mCrocknamoghil 335mMullaghbolig 442mSpaltindoagh 420m
SW: Mullaghcarn:   Curraghchosaly Mountain 416mMullaghcarn 542mMullaghcarn South Top 525m
SW: Newtownstewart Hills:   Bessy Bell 420mMullaghcroy 242m
W: Strabane:   Balix Hill 403mKnockavoe 296mOwenreagh Hill 400m

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
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Eglish Hill Tyrone County in NI and in Ulster Province, in Binnion List, Psammite & semipellite Bedrock

Height: 277m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 7 Grid Reference: C50494 04310
Place visited by 15 members. Recently by: wintersmick, trostanite, dregish, LorraineG60, MichaelG55, eamonoc, Fergalh, NICKY, Aidy, sandman, Harry Goodman, AntrimRambler, chalky, Garmin, Peter Walker
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Longitude: -7.214039, Latitude: 54.883926 , Easting: 250494, Northing: 404310 Prominence: 108m,  Isolation: 3.1km
ITM: 650432 904298,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Eglish, 10 char: Eglish
Bedrock type: Psammite & semipellite, (Claudy Formation)

Eglish is the 1217th highest place in Ireland.

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Eglish  in area Sperrin Mountains, Ireland
Picture: A view of Eglish from the start of the walk.
 
Short easy walk.
Short Summary created by Harry Goodman  23 Mar 2015
On the East flank of the hill park on the roadside grass verge near a gated entrance to a rough track into the field. Once over the gate do not take the track but go left and follow the fence line around and the up past a small plantation. Beyond the trees cross over the fence and keeping it on the right go up the grassy slope to gain the broad grassy top of the hill. Return by way of ascent. There are views of the surrounding small hills in the area and S to the main Sperrins ridge. Easily climbed up and back in about 40 minutes and covering some 2.2km in distance. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1177/comment/15421/
 
MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Eglish  in area Sperrin Mountains, Ireland
Picture: View from the northeast side.
Inaccessible Due To Wind Farm Construction
by Aidy  25 Apr 2016
Unfortunately impossible to get to the summit of this hill at the time of writing. I intended to access on the wind farm road, from sandman's point D, but construction is well advanced now, with a gate and security hut at the bottom of the road. The security man was polite and friendly, but was definite on there being no chance of walking up the road as all visitors had to be authorised, signed in, and wearing safety hats etc. He wasn't sure, but was also doubtful that I could access from other directions, and said he thought the whole summit was cordoned off. I drove the short distance to the approximate start of Peter Walker's Track 2417 and managed to get a fair way up the hill, but the whole top seemed like a construction site, and was indeed cordoned off with ropes a bit further back from the works. It was a short distance anyway from the road to the summit, and I was most of the way there, with most of the height done also, so I didn't feel that I was missing out on much. The summit may be accessible again when all the windmills have been actually erected, but it looked like that could be quite a while away. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1177/comment/18507/
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Eglish  in area Sperrin Mountains, Ireland
Picture: A walker on the high point of the hill.
 
A worthy little Binnion.
by Harry Goodman  23 Mar 2015
I parked on the E flank of the hill at the place suggested by Peter Walker and followed his route to the top. Conditions in March 2015 had not changed from those experienced by Peter twelve months earlier. Once off the rough muddy track the moorland consisted of rough patches of grass and heather and a series of peat embankments interspersed with marshy ground all of which made for heavy going uphill. On the wide grassy flat top my reading for the unmarked high point was C5049704312 starA. While there are expansive views across to the main Sperrins ridge and surrounding lower hills these are not unique and are views replicated from the tops of many of these lower hills. Perhaps the best comment I can make from my experience of climbing this hill is to recommend a route up and back which I followed on my descent and which eliminates the need to trudge over the rough ground highlighted by Peter walker and experienced first hand by me on my way up. On starting out , once across the gate, do not follow the rough track straight ahead but rather go left and follow the fence line around and then up past a small tree plantation. The going is much easier and less boggy that my ascent route. Once past the plantation cross over the fence and then follow it up over a mainly grassy slope to gain the summit . Return by way of ascent. Some 2.2km up and back. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1177/comment/17889/
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Picture: The route to Eglish..more suited to bog snorkeling than hillwalking
Swamp Thing
by Peter Walker  7 Mar 2014
Eglish is a newly appointed Binnion, and it gloriously conforms to many of the more pessimistic stereotypes associated with the Sperrins. Especially given the recent weather it's distinctly reminiscent of a disastrous entry on The Great Irish Bake Off; hugely shapeless and way too moist.

I started at (512048 starB) on the minor road contouring the hill's eastern flank; it's easy enough to squeeze a car off the road. The skies were somewhat grief-stricken, and my usually enthusiastic partner-in-crime Mr Neelix T. Dog seemed much more interested in having a snooze in the back of the BMW. Undaunted, I hopped over the gate and sallied forth along the track marked on the map. This was certainly less vegetated than the surroundings, but it didn't seem noticeably less wet (i.e. it was saturated). I persisted with it for a few hundred metres before just gritting my teeth and heading straight for the highest point on the skyline. About ten minutes of squelching and swearing led to a fence junction (easily climbed over) beyond which lay the summit area. The map suggests the views to be reasonably open to west and east...someone blessed with better weather may be able to verify that on the ground.

I attempted to return much the same way, but the track I've uploaded suggests I didn't. Just over half an hour after leaving it I was back at the car, a bit cross and deeply wet following involuntary immersion in a bog hole. Evidently the dog knows more about making hillwalking pleasurable than I do. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1177/comment/15905/
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Picture: Summit Area.
 
Options.
by sandman  26 Apr 2016
Option 1 you can access the summit via the gate entrance described in the previous comments but you should keep to the track which although becomes faint as you keep left at C5101104838 starC this will bring you to within a short distance of the summit just hop fence into next field but this route can be slightly water logged or you can opt for Option 2 park at the entrance to the proposed wind farm road C5106303984 starD and walk on a nice gravel road which will take you basically to the same spot as Option 1. It looks as if the wind farm may be extended in the future. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1177/comment/18373/
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