Caha SE Top, Cnoc na Ceachan (mullach thoir theas) 585m mountain, Caha Mountains N: Coomnadiha Ireland at MountainViews.ie

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Caha Mountains Area N: Coomnadiha Subarea

Place count in area: 58, OSI/LPS Maps: 83, 84, 85, 88
Highest place:

Hungry Hill, 682m
Maximum height for area: 682 metres, Maximum prominence for area: 400 metres,

Places in area Caha Mountains:
Cen: Hungry Hill:

Coombane 510m

Derryclancy 554m

Hungry Hill 682m
Cen: Knockowen:

Knockeirky South Top 522.5m

Knockowen 660.3m

Stookeennalackareha 412m
E: Glengarriff:

Derrynafulla SW 375m

Gowlbeg Mountain 362m

Nareera 530m

Nareera North Top 503m

Nareera South-West Top 505m

Shrone Hill 283m

Sugarloaf Mountain 574m

Sugarloaf Mountain Far West Top 560m

Sugarloaf Mountain West Top 565m
N: Coomnadiha:

Baurearagh Mountain 489m

Killane Mountain 537m

Killane Mountain South-West Top 533m

Knockagarrane 414m

Knockreagh 499.1m
N: Knockeirka:

Barraduff Mountain 400m

Killaha Mountain 400m

Knockeirka 426m
N: Knocknagorraveela:

Derrysallagh 410m

Feorus East 474m

Knocknagorraveela 507m

Knocknagorraveela NE Top 464m
N: Lauragh:

Knockanoughanish 386m

Knockatee 330m
S: Castletownbere:

Disert 205m

Knockanallig (Bear Island) 267m
W: Ardgroom:

Derryvour Hill 160m
W: Eskatarriff:

Coomacloghane 598.9m

Eskatarriff 600.5m

Eskatarriff East Top 532.7m

Keeragh Mountain 363.2m

Knocknaveacal North Top 512.7m

Knocknaveacal South Top 512.7m

Lackabane 603m

Tooreenbaha 408.7m

Tooreennamna 524m

Tooth Mountain 592m
W: Knocknagree:

Knocknagree 586m

Knocknagree East Top 461m

Knocknagree SE Top 442m

Lackawee 572m

Maulin 621m

Maulin North Top 579m

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.

Caha SE Top Mountain Cnoc na Ceachan (mullach thoir theas) A name in Irish Ir. Cnoc na Ceachan [OSi], poss. ‘hill of the gorge’ Cork/ Kerry County in Munster Province, in Arderin Beg List, Purple & green sandstone & siltstone Bedrock

Height: 585m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 85 Grid Reference: V85702 58075
Place visited by 56 members. Recently by: compassman, DeirdreM, SeanPurcell, Carolyn105, farmerjoe1, Superterence, bandre, maoris, Krzysztof_K, Grumbler, Sweeney, miriam, Geo, JohnRea, annem
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Longitude: -9.656275, Latitude: 51.763896 , Easting: 85702, Northing: 58075 Prominence: 15m, Isolation: 0.3km
ITM: 485677 558140, GPS IDs, 6 char: ChSETp, 10 char: ChSETp
Bedrock type: Purple & green sandstone & siltstone, (Caha Mountain Formation)

Unlike Caha itself, this peak is located on the main ridge of the range. Ceacha is not a word to be found in Irish dictionaries. O’Donovan noted its similarity to ceachair, which can mean ‘quagmire’, and the Caha plateau, dotted with hundreds of pools and lakes, is notoriously wet and difficult to cross. Locals say that there are as many lakes as days of the year. O’Donovan’s suggestion merits serious consideration. However, in view of the growing evidence for an early Brittonic language in Ireland, this name is best explained as follows: it is likely that the name An Cheacha (fem. noun) originally referred neither to an individual peak nor to a range, but to a steep, narrow gorge at the upper end of the Baurearagh valley. The word is only known through this place-name and two others near Dunmanway in West Cork: Caha River and the townland of Ardcahan (Ir. Ard Ceachan), but appears to be cognate with Welsh ceg, ‘throat, mouth, orifice’, which incidentally is also a feminine noun. The English word gorge also means ‘throat’. The suspicion that the name applied originally to a topographical feature distinct from the range is confirmed by the fact that the name appears as a simplex (just An Cheacha), not following a generic e.g. sliabh, sléibhte or the like. The name was, no doubt, later transferred to the range, a change probably facilitated by cartographers equating Ir. An Cheacha with Eng. Caha Mountains. The individual peak named Caha (Ir. Cnoc na Ceachan), despite being only a minor bump on the shoulder of Coomnadiha, is so called because of its location right at the head of this gorge. The geography of the Baurearagh valley and the Caha gorge, essential to understanding this name, is now unfamiliar to all but the handful of remaining inhabitants and avid hillwalkers. Always remote, the valley is now hardly ever visited, largely due to the construction in the 19th century of the Tunnels Road from Bonane to Glengarriff, which ascends the ridge SW of Releagh to Turner’s Rock without entering the valley at all. “Out of sight, out of mind”. Caha SE Top is the 328th highest place in Ireland.
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Rough terrain on approach to remote top. .. by group (Show all for Caha SE Top (Cnoc na Ceachan (mullach thoir theas)))

MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Caha SE Top (<i>Cnoc na Ceachan (mullach thoir theas)</i>) in area Caha Mountains, Ireland

Picture: The view from the summit looking North East

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by Fergalh 16 Oct 2020

Done as part of long circuit of valley including Knocknagarrane, Knockreagh, Coomnadiha, Caha Se Top, Caha Far Se Top, Droppa, Comeenhaun. There are many small tops in this area so not advisable to do on a bad weather day especially as there is a long and slippy descent off Comeenbaun . This was part of a long walk so should only be attempted in summer in my view although there may be another route to get here possibly. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1410/comment/20934/

A walk on the wild side .. by Colin Murphy (Show all for Caha SE Top (Cnoc na Ceachan (mullach thoir theas)))

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