Maumtrasna, Mám Trasna, Binn Bhuí 682m mountain, Partry & Joyce Cen: Maumtrasna Ireland at MountainViews.ie

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Partry & Joyce Area Cen: Maumtrasna Subarea

Place count in area: 27, OSI/LPS Maps: 37, 38, CBE, EW-CON, MSW
Highest place:

Maumtrasna, 682m
Maximum height for area: 682 metres, Maximum prominence for area: 607 metres,

Places in area Partry & Joyce:
Cen: Finny:

Glenbeg East 372m
Cen: Knocknafaughy:

Knocknafaughy 254m

Rinavore 426m
Cen: Maumtrasna:

Barnahowna 516m

Buckaun East 495m

Glennagleragh Mtn 617m

Knocklaur 518m

Maumtrasna 682m

Maumtrasna North-East Top 572m

Tullymorehill 279m
N: Ballintober Hills:

Bohaun 393m

Corveagh 233m

Croaghrimkarra 271m

Keelkil 239m
SE: Cornamona:

Mount Gable 417.8m

Bohaun 424m

Knocknagussy 456m
SW: Bunnacunneen:

Ben Beg 560m

Bunnacunneen 575m

Bunnacunneen South Top 539m

Bunnacunneen SE Top 479m

Lugnabrick SW Top 494m

Lugnabrick NE Top 494m
W: Devilsmother:

Devilsmother 645m

Devilsmother South Top 509m

Devilsmother North Top 595m

Devilsmother Far North Top 601m

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.

Maumtrasna Mountain Mám Trasna A name in Irish, also Formnamore, also Binn Bhuí an extra EastWest name in Irish (Ir. Mám Trasna [logainm.ie], 'pass across') Mayo County in Connacht Province, in Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam, Irish Highest Hundred Lists, Sandstone, pebbly conglomerate Bedrock

Height: 682m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 38 Grid Reference: L96089 63742
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Longitude: -9.570833, Latitude: 53.61336 , Easting: 96089, Northing: 263742 Prominence: 607m, Isolation: 1.8km, Has trig pillar
ITM: 496061 763761, GPS IDs, 6 char: Mmtrsn, 10 char: Maumtrasna
Bedrock type: Sandstone, pebbly conglomerate, (Moy Sandstone Formation)

There are numerous spurs running off Maumtrasna, such as Knocklaur, Benwee, Leynabricka, Skeltia and Buckaun, but few are peaks in their own right. This area was formerly in Co. Galway, but is now in Mayo. An earlier name for Maumtrasna is Formnamore (Ir. Formna Mór, 'great shoulder'). Roderic O'Flaherty mentions in this 1684 as one of the boundaries of Iarchonnacht or West Connacht: It is surrounded on the east with Loughmeasg [Lough Mask], the isthmus and river of Cong, Lough Orbsen [Lough Corrib], and the river of Galway; on the south with the bay of Gallway [sic] and the western ocean; on the west and north with the same ocean, and with the mountains of Formna more further on the north. [O'Flaherty, 7-8] That the name Formnamore corresponds to Maumtrasna is confirmed by a reference in H. C. Hart's Climbing in the British Isles (1895). The name Maumtrasna originally applies to the pass on the road between L. Nafooey and L. Mask, which also gives its name to a townland in this area. Walks: for a route around Lough Nadirkmore and over the shoulder of Buckaun, see Kevin Corcoran, West of Ireland Walks, 123-32. Mám Trasna is the highest mountain in the Partry & Joyce area and the 140th highest in Ireland.
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A steep-sided fortress topped by a huge plateau. .. by group (Show all for Maumtrasna (Mám Trasna))

Hulking Monolith .. by TommyV (Show all for Maumtrasna (Mám Trasna))

Driving north along the N59, the craggy and deepl .. by lewvalton (Show all for Maumtrasna (Mám Trasna))

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Picture: Maumtrasna's dilapidated trig pillar

Trig pillar

by markwallace 5 Aug 2017

Unusually, Maumtrasna's trig pillar is not at the summit proper as marked on MV and OSI 38. The trig pillar is at around L 974 645 star

I (OSI point 673), sitting above the head of the Srahnalong valley. Approaching from the south or south-east, it seems to be oddly situated in the middle of a boggy plateau. But just as you reach the pillar, the view opens up to the north to include a large chunk of Mayo - Croagh Patrick near at hand, Achill in the distance, Nephin and the Nephin Begs, etc.

The summit proper is 1.5 km from the trig, going roughly south-west over initially boggy ground which eventually becomes mostly bare rock. Impossible to tell which point on the huge, cairn-littered plateau is the real summit with the naked eye, so map is necessary to find it, even in clear weather. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/132/comment/19620/

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		Some mapping: Open Street Map (Various variations used.)	British summit data courtesy: Database of British & Irish Hills (Creative Commons Licence)
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