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Rinvyle Point: Easy stroll to the point

Coast Comment Fergalh 3 hours ago
Parked at 657638 Underneath Rinvyle Castle beside the beach. Followed track through two gates until 650641 than turn North west to the point. From here if the tide is out it is a short walk t...

Rossroe Island: Short stroll from mainland

Island Comment Fergalh 4 hours ago
Parked at 932273 and strolled over bridge to island. Turned right and at 931273 walked up a green lane past a orange house until i reached a T junction. Here i turned right and than crossed w...

Cullentragh and Derrybawn

Track 4794 simon3 a day ago
This route takes a somewhat different route to find it's way to the Derrybawn ridge. walk, Len: 16.4km, Climb: 670m, Area: Cullentragh Mountain, Wicklow (Ireland) C...

Cloghercor South: Worth a visit if passing

Summit Comment eamonoc 11 hours ago
Direct route up and down from R250, plenty of parking atG86210 99124, cross road to farm gate and onto open hillside for boggy trek to summit

Glengesh Hill: A boogy round trip

Summit Comment eamonoc 11 hours ago
Done as part of a round trip from Glengesh gap, over Croaghavehy.

If you like your Binnions served wet

Track 4793 eamonoc a day ago
Started this walk from Carpark at Glengesh Gap, from the start the ground was very wet and boggy and continued so ov... walk, Len: 9.0km, Climb: 463m, Area: Cruach an Bheithe, Donegal SW (Ireland) ||

Fossy Mountain: Access update point B

Summit Comment moggy40 4 days ago
The gate at point B now has a lock on it, so driving is out. Bike or walk is still an option

Errigal: Reflection

Summit Comment mcrtchly 6 days ago
Errigal rises majestically above the uncharacteristically calm Dunlewey Lough beckoning us to climb its snow covered summit the next day

Slieve Rushen: Snowed under

Summit Comment Colin Murphy 6 days ago
It's amazing sometimes how winter can transform an otherwise ordinary little hill into something beautiful. Slieve Rushen is a tramp through heather to a broad mound with a slightly smaller m...

Fine route in the Centre of Fanad Peninsula

Track 4792 eamonoc a day ago
walk, Len: 8.3km, Climb: 461m, Area: Cnoc Colbha, Donegal North (Ireland) Cnoc ...

Slieve Rushen: Heather-topped hill with good views

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: Colin Murphy 6 days ago
It is possible to drive up a narrow forest road to H23164 21626, (Corneen Wind Farm) where there is parking for a few cars. This will take you to about 350m ascent, however after that, depend...

Annagh Island: Narrow but tricky channel to cross

Island Comment Fergalh a week ago
We approached this island at low tide on a windy day hoping that the channel was narrow enough to cross. However it is around 2/3 metres across with the Atlantic swell rushing through and wit...
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Iveragh NW Area   SW: Skelligs Subarea
Place count in area: 18, OSI/LPS Maps: 83, 84 
Highest place: Knocknadobar, 690m
Maximum height for area: 690 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 565 metres,

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Skellig Rock Little Hill An Sceilg Bheag A name in Irish, also Small Skellig an extra name in English Ir. An Sceilg Bheag [GÉ], ‘the little rock’ Kerry County in Munster Province, in Binnion, Irish Islands Lists, Red conglomerate, sandstone & mudstone Bedrock

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Height: 131m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 83 Grid Reference: V26900 61700
Place visited by 2 members. Recently by: finkey86, DavidWalsh
Island visited by 4 members.
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Longitude: -10.509066, Latitude: 51.781367 , Easting: 26900, Northing: 61700 Prominence: 131m,  Isolation: 2.5km
ITM: 426888 561764,   GPS IDs, 6 char: SklgRc, 10 char: SklgRckLtl
Bedrock type: Red conglomerate, sandstone & mudstone, (Old Red Sandstone (undifferentiated))

Small Skellig is home to nearly 70,000 gannets,making it the second largest gannet colony in the world. It is a statutory nature reserve. The public is not permitted to land on the island and there is no public access. The word sceilg is probably an early alternative form of speilic, both derived from Latin spelunca, ‘cave, den’, a word sometimes applied to hermit’s dwellings. The change sp- > sc- probably occurred in the early Christian period when Irish had no native words with p, cf. Ir. Cáisc, ‘Easter’, < Latin Pascha. It is no coincidence that two of the best known and earliest recorded instances of sceilg are at 6th century monastic sites with hermitages, namely Skellig Michael and Templenaskellig near St. Kevin’s Bed at Glendalough.   An Sceilg Bheag is the 1492th highest place in Ireland. An Sceilg Bheag is the second most southerly summit and also the second most westerly in the Iveragh NW area.
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