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Nagles Mountains Area   S: Dungourney Subarea
Place count in area: 9, OSI/LPS Maps: 80, 81 
Highest place:
Knocknaskagh, 426.5m
Maximum height for area: 426.5 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 293 metres,

Places in area Nagles Mountains:
E: Tallow:   Knockroe 177m
N: Fermoy Hills:   Ballydorgan 177mCorrin 220m
NW: Knocknaskagh:   Corran 407.5mKnocknaskagh 426.5mKnocknaskagh North Top 406.3mSeefin 424m
S: Dungourney:   Garrylaurence Hill 236mKnockakeo 238m

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
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Garrylaurence Hill Hill Cork County in Munster Province, in no lists, Purple mudstone and sandstone Bedrock

Height: 236m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 81 Grid Reference: W90836 84063
Place visited by 21 members. Recently by: Taisce, chelman7, John.geary, ciarraioch, Wildrover, Daingean, Fergalh, Juanita, CaminoPat, sbender, PeakPaul, tommccarthy, t.jay, caiomhin, conormcbandon
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Longitude: -8.134189, Latitude: 52.009046 , Easting: 190836, Northing: 84063 Prominence: 97m,  Isolation: 3.7km
ITM: 590787 584122,   GPS IDs, 6 char: GrylHl, 10 char: GrylrncHil
Bedrock type: Purple mudstone and sandstone, (Ballytrasna Formation)

Garrylaurence Hill is the 1319th highest place in Ireland. Garrylaurence Hill is the most southerly summit in the Nagles Mountains area.

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Garrylaurence Hill  in area Nagles Mountains, Ireland
Picture: The summit from the east
 
No views but worth a visit for its stone circle
Short Summary created by jackill  9 Feb 2014
Park in the forest entrance at W91181 83472 starA room for 2 cars. Cross the barrier and walk uphill to a track junction. Head north into the trees and a generally good track will become apparent.At the next track junction go west finally heading uphill at W90835 83943 starB along a wide machine access track. The summit area is marked by a large clearing with a well preserved circle of standing stones. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1239/comment/15483/
 
MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Garrylaurence Hill  in area Nagles Mountains, Ireland
Picture: The Stone Circle
A place of pilgrimage
by jackill  13 Mar 2014
This small summit gave me a surprise. As I fumbled about in the trees looking for the summit I wandered into a large clearing with an impressive stone circle/tomb in a very good state of preservation.
A bit of research has revealed it is marked on old 25 and 6 inch maps but not much else.
The placename Garrylaurence has however unearthed a bit more information.
Just down the road is Clonmult, the site of an IRA ambush which took place during the war of Independence. Near the village is a holy well dedicated to St Laurence in the townland of Garrylaurence/Garraí Labhráis meaning Field/Garden of Laurence. It is located in a small enclosure beside the narrow road that I used to access this hill.
A large statue of St Laurence and a small stone cross bearing the inscription INRI Saint Laurence and the date 1824, sit on top of the roof of the well hut.
St Laurence is Laurence O’ Toole a 12th century Irish saint who was abbot of Glendalough and later Bishop of Dublin. He died in the monastery at Eu, in Normandy and his tomb in Eu became a place of pilgrimage and many miracles were attributed to his intercession. He was canonized in 1225 by Pope Honorius and his remains were moved to a tomb in front of the High Altar on the 10th of May.The nearby church church at Clonmult is also dedicated to the saint.

The saints feast day is the 14th of November , but the 9th of August was the main day for pilgrimage at Garrylaurence.

The Ordnance Survey Letters of O'Donovan written in 1841 state

"A holy well called ‘St Laurence Well’ where paterns were annually held some years since on the 9th of August…"

In 1917 Canon Power records that " rounds were made here chiefly on August the 9th and votive offering of ‘usual character ‘ on the tree branches ‘which are immediately over the sacred fountain". Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1239/comment/15839/
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Garrylaurence Hill  in area Nagles Mountains, Ireland
Picture: Signpost.
 
The Giant's Grave
by sandman  27 Apr 2015
I can not tell for certain if a giant is buried on this hill but the locals believe so and have duly sign posted the way to the grave from the forest entrance previously mentioned by jackill. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1239/comment/17954/
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