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A New Hazard!

Forum: General Aidy a few minutes ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-45231987Never heard of this happening before.

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Summit Comment jsramsey1491 an hour ago
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Summit Comment sandman 23 hours ago
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Summit Comment Bunsen7 a day ago
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Summit Comment Bunsen7 a day ago
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Track 3868 simon3 a day ago
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Summit Comment Bunsen7 a day ago
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Summit Comment CaminoPat 2 days ago
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An Bhinn Bhuí: Benwee Loop walk towards Portacloy.

Summit Comment ucampbell 4 days ago
The Loop walks here are well signposted, it's a great idea to go out onto each headland.
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Comeragh Mountains Area
Place count in area: 24, OSI/LPS Maps: 74, 75, 81, 82 
Highest place: Fauscoum, 792m
Maximum height for area: 792 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 626 metres,

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
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Fauscoum North-West Top Mountain Fáschom barr thiar thuaidh A name in Irish
Waterford County, 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 80 members. Recently by: hak493r, Deise-Man, chrismcc, Nakoz, Pepe, Seamus-hills, Fergalh, Barry28213, sbender, Chance, PaulNolan, David-Guenot, GerLeahy, oakesave, markwallace
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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: FscmNr, 10 char: FscmNrthWs
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)   Fauscoum North-West Top is the 78th highest place in Ireland.
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