Feature count in area: 5, all in Derry,
OSI/LPS Maps: 4, 7, 8
Highest Place: Donald's Hill 399m
Starting Places in area Keenaght:
None for this area
Summits & other features in area Keenaght: Keenaght East: Binevenagh 385m, Donald's Hill 399m, Keady Mountain 337m Keenaght West: Gortnessy Hill 176m, Loughermore 396m
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islands as such.
Gortnessy Hill, 176mHill
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, Derry County in Ulster province, in no lists, Gortnessy Hill is the 1435th highest place in Ireland. Gortnessy Hill is the most westerly in the Keenaght area.
Grid Reference C50431 17093,
OS 1:50k mapsheet 7 Place visited by: 14members, recently by: ElaineM76, trostanite, dregishjake, dregish, eamonoc, Fergalh, sperrinlad, NICKY, sandman, Garmin, Aidy, Harry Goodman, AntrimRambler, Peter Walker
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Summary
for Gortnessy Hill :
A hill in name but ........!
Summary created by Harry Goodman
2015-03-22 22:30:45
Picture: Approaching the high point of the hill.
Park off road on the grass verge and, at A
(C50357 16815)
, go through a gate and up the left edge of a field to a fence junction some 250m along where a raised ditch goes off on the right. The top of the hill lies across this ditch in an adjacent flat grassy field. Up and back takes less than 15 minutes, with a minimal rise from the starting point.
Picture: View across the Foyle from Gortnessy Hill top.
One to forget or, better still, ignore!
by Harry Goodman
23 Mar 2015
The only justification I can offer for "climbing" this hill is that in doing so I completed my list of the MV tops for Keenaght. It has nothing going for it. There is very little height gain and once at the "top" there was nothing to commend my being there apart from helping a peak bagger to tick it off on his MV list and move on. From the start point A
(C50357 16815)
I followed the left edge of a field up to where a raised ditch, topped by a wire fence, went off at a right angle to my approach. The high point of the hill lay in a large grassy field on the other side of the ditch. Up and back took. less than 15 minutes. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1320/comment/17887/
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Picture: Looking across a field of rapeseed to Slievekirk
Harry Goodman is fundamentally right about the relative lack of merits of Gortnessy Hill...it'll never be worth a specific visit. But it's quite nice in late summer if you happen to be passing... Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1320/comment/17895/
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