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Heavens Above

Forum: General mcrtchly 16 hours ago
The Milky Way arches over the abandoned church in Dunlewy, Co. Donegal with the Derryveagh Mountains in the background during an exceptionally clear night sky in late September 2020. This is a com...

Croaghanmoira: Great Mountain, Simple Climb

Summit Comment Pepe 2 days ago
As e2rd mentions in an earlier comment: there are many ways to climb this mountain. Driving from Glenmalure, I parked at a parking place on the RHS of the road about half a click north of Point A....

Cycle: Circuit of Carlingford Lough

Track 4379 Onzy a week ago
Distance was 58k of which 4k was on a ferry - actual cycling time around 3 hours .... sometimes walking is too slow... cycle, Len: 2.8km, Climb: 197m, Area: Cooley/Gullion (Ireland) ||

Cronamuck: Start of a brilliant ridge leading to the Bluestacks

Summit Comment gerrym 3 days ago
Started at the Old School House in the Reelan River Valley and followed the Sli na Finne over open hillside, forest track and a quiet country lane. This was some 10km away from the summit, though ...

An Ráth: Not as simple as the map suggests !

Summit Comment Fergalh 2 days ago
Parked at the west at V 532570 there than followed a long struggle through bracken, brambles, gorse, elephant grass and holes in the ground until you get to the upper levels where the grass is sho...

Kirikee and Carriglineen, excellent viewpoints.

Track 4382 simon3 a week ago
This is a fairly short walk starting from Glenmalure Lodge and taking in Kirikee and Carriglineen. Both of these ... walk, Len: 10.1km, Climb: 478m, Area: Kirikee Mountain, Dublin/Wicklow (Irelan|...

Coomura Mountain: Lough Reagh reflection

Summit Comment peter1 3 days ago
I climbed up through the Lough Reagh Aiguilles on Sunday and spotted Coomura reflected in the still waters of Lough Reagh on the walk in.

Keamconneragh

Forum: Suggestions David-Guenot 2 days ago
Just suggested new coordinates for Keamconneragh.What is obviously called Teeromoyle Tooth is the rocky outcrop at the end of the narrow ridge dropping down from Teeromoyle Mountain, which corresp...

Slievemeel: An energy-sapping exercise in masochism.

Summit Comment Colin Murphy 3 days ago
The was the third top in a three-summit circular walk involving Tievedockaragh and Finlieve, and by far the most unpleasant. Having bagged Finlieve I backtracked to J227 217 leaving me with a trek...

The Hill of Uisneach

Track 4378 ceadeile 2 weeks ago
Photo of Information board located at visitor centre On 5th September 2020 I had the good luck and good sense to spe... walk, Len: 3.4km, Climb: 112m, Area: Uisneach, North Midlands (Ireland) Uisne||

Finlieve: All in a row

Summit Comment Colin Murphy 3 days ago
While descending Finlieve spotted this unusually orderly group of sheep who seemed to be playing 'follow the leader'.

Near Glencappul Top, Mangerton (Ireland)

Track 4377 kitog 2 weeks ago
walk, Len: 21.7km, Climb: 1680m, Area: Glencappul Top, Mangerton (Ireland) Glen...
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Iveragh NW Area
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
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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 1480th 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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