Bad news for Peter1, good news for everyone else... this hill is no longer one for the nutter! A new phone mast and road to it has made this an easy one. Not that it was easy for me either! I didn't know about the road so took the difficult way in. Check out the accompanying map... just use the exit line for entry and exit. Park at R21998 71778 A. Take the right fork at R217 716 B. Leave the road going right at R21269 71092 C. The trig is an easy 100m. Or... just take the difficult way? Its great fun! Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1196/comment/18653/

This is one for the enthusiast...or nutter. My excuse is that it was my 60th birthday and I wanted to bag an MV 'First Ascent'
Park just East of the start point of the GPS track where there is space for 2 cars. Follow the forest track and after passing the mobile phone mast, head into the forest to look for the trig. pillar - which is around one third the height of a 'normal' pillar.
On leaving the pillar, I headed East through the forest to pick up the forest track and back to the car.
Note: the forest is very hard work! In orienteering terms, it is 'fight'... Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1196/comment/16082/

Visited Ben Dash on Sunday 24th Feb, parked as mentioned in previous comments, made way up track. . On the lower slopes of the hill there is a lot of construction work being undertaken, power lines I think. I counted 5 diggers there is a large area of forest cleared to makeway for the power lines. I found the elusiive trig without too mugh difficulty, anyone intending to visit Ben Dash might be best served to leave it till a Sunday. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1196/comment/20446/

On a recent stroll along the Mid Clare Way (Map 9) i took a dash off the track at the second of two communication towers (the smaller one !) to revisit Ben Dash. There is a track to the left (as you see it) of the green container....It fizzles out quickly but take a north north west bearing on soft ground through thinned out trees and climb a minor 5 metre ridge to summit. Here is a photo of the correct communications tower before the mad dash to summit ! Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1196/comment/23765/

Plenty of diggers about Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1196/comment/20447/

Ben Dash was one of my earlier attempts at hill bagging, back in the days when I had no gps and didn't believe I needed a map. I went through some bog that people had bagged turf on before I found a road that led to the mast mentioned by peter1. As I had no map or gps, I never found the elusive trig point but I figured I was close enough to tick this one off the list. It's not a hill that you would not likely revisit. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1196/comment/20217/