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Kilclooney North-West Top Mountain Fáschom barr thiar thuaidh A name in Irish
also Curraghduff an extra name in English
Waterford County in Munster Province, in Irish Best Hundred List, Green thick-bedded conglomerate Bedrock

Height: 750.1m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 75 Grid Reference: S30500 11200
Place visited by 92 members. Recently by: Jay9, chelman7, Peter Walker, abcd, TipsyDempy, ColmGeraghty, finkey86, MountainHunter, john_desmond, JoHeaney, srr45, High-King, hak493r, Deise-Man, chrismcc
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Longitude: -7.554141, Latitude: 52.252155 , Easting: 230500, Northing: 111200 Prominence: 13.5m,  Isolation: 1km
ITM: 630442 611253,   GPS IDs, 6 char: KlclNr, 10 char: KlclnyNrth
Bedrock type: Green thick-bedded conglomerate, (Treanearla Formation)

Referred to as Curraghduff in the original Vandeleur-Lynam list, though this appears to be the townland name (OSI 6). One possible translation of Curraghduff is Black round hill(Loganim.ie)   Kilclooney North-West Top is the 78th highest place in Ireland.
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