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Summit Comment Fergalh a day ago
Parked at 515997 with plenty of parking and followed mucky track to end at field. Then I headed south west through two fields to 516991 where there is mucky track to brow of hill. At this poi...

Easy walk, with nice views towards Eagle Island

Track 4839 eamonoc 3 days ago
walk, Len: 1.5km, Climb: 16m, Area: Mayo Coastal Hill (Ireland) ||

Beenbane: Borreen to heaven

Summit Comment Fergalh 2 days ago
Parked at 467988 at end of lane. Followed narrow borreen into field and crossed over this to fence. Climb over and through the gate to non descript high point with great views of the cliffs n...

Glan Mountain: A Glan rocker......

Summit Comment Fergalh a day ago
Parked at 546993 and walked up track to base of hill. Crossed fence and headed up short slope. Ground here and on summit is a mixture of gorse, burnt gorse and bog. No marker for summit in fl...

Slieve Fyagh: Gaiter day out

Summit Comment eamonoc 3 days ago
Fairly wet underfoot on this One

Typical wet North Mayo Coastal Hill

Track 4838 eamonoc 3 days ago
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Track 4840 eamonoc 3 days ago
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Carrigshouk: Lovely loop

Summit Comment 500plusclub a week ago
Lovely loop up one side and down the other . On a clear day you have a great view north and south.

Bweengduff: The Shiddy Way?

Summit Comment Colin Murphy a week ago
This isn't a particularly interesting hill, although after a prolonged rainy period, I did see multiple gushing streams on my walk, some of them having flooded sections of the forest track. T...

A Cone with a view

Track 4837 eamonoc 3 days ago
walk, Len: 3.2km, Climb: 130m, Area: Cone Hill, Mayo Coastal Hill (Ireland) Con...

Bweengduff: A good forest road to access this summit

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: Colin Murphy a week ago
Park at a forest entrance W46444 88741, room for 5 cars. Follow the track into the forest , along the Duhallow way, taking the second left, then the first right, then second left then first r...
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South East Midlands Area   E: Barrow Subarea
Place count in area: 31, OSI/LPS Maps: 28A, 28B, 47, 48, 49, 53, 54, 55, 59, 60 
Highest place: Slievenamon, 720.2m
Maximum height for area: 720.2 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 711 metres,

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Newtown Hill Hill Carlow County in Leinster Province, in Binnion List, Pale, fine to coarse-grained granite Bedrock

Height: 208m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 61 Grid Reference: S75022 65424
Place visited by 13 members. Recently by: abcd, Aneta.jablonska, dregish, conormcbandon, Pepe, jlk, simon3, madfrankie, chalky, sandman, eamonoc, Fergalh, wicklore
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Longitude: -6.890119, Latitude: 52.735081 , Easting: 275022, Northing: 165424 Prominence: 109m,  Isolation: 11.5km
ITM: 674954 665466,   GPS IDs, 6 char: NwtwHl, 10 char: NwtwnHil
Bedrock type: Pale, fine to coarse-grained granite, (Tullow Type 2 Equigranular Granite)

Newtown Hill is the 1383th highest place in Ireland. Newtown Hill is the second most easterly summit in the South East Midlands area.
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Wooded summit, easily reached but without view. .. by group   (Show all for Newtown Hill )
 
Poor Binnion .. by eamonoc   (Show all for Newtown Hill )
 
MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Newtown Hill in area South East Midlands, Ireland
Picture: Views can now be had		  
Cleaned up hill
by Fergalh  12 Apr 2022
Redid this hill over the weekend and the area at the entrance has now had tidied up. Also all the trees have recently been levelled so now there are some views of the surrounding area and of Mount Leinster. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1281/comment/23480/
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