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Scattery Island: A very pleasant day out

Island Comment garrettd 13 hours ago
Visited as part of the very worthwhile OPW guided tour of the island’s monastic settlement. Access to the high point is included as part of the tour. There may be restrictions in spring or ea...

Poor service from OSNI

Forum: General aidand 23 hours ago
I’m heading to the Mournes shortly so decided to purchase a new map. I ordered this from the OSNI website. The map finally arrived today, 3 weeks after I ordered it. I’m sure plenty of other ...

Mweelrea: Mweelrea west access, descent

Summit Comment jkforde a day ago
Hi all, I know about the land access restrictions on the west of Mweelrea (Silver Strand) and I also know about the commonage access point. My doubt is about descent options.. I presume the l...

The Blue Eye, Albania.

Track 5165 Colin Murphy 3 days ago
The Blue Eye in Southern Albania is a water spring and initial source of the Bistricë River, which flows into the Ionia walk, Len: 3.8km, Climb: 106m, Area: Unid, Unid () ||

Inishbiggle: A Great Day Exploring

Island Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: Damian120 a week ago
It's a wonderful island to explore on a fine summer's day. Take the ferry from Doran's Point and spend a few hours trekking around this off-the-beaten-track gem.

Small but spectacular

Track 5168 Colin Murphy 3 days ago
Angelokastro is a stunning hill on the island of Corfu topped by the ruin of a 13th century castle, of which little rema walk, Len: 0.9km, Climb: 81m, Area: Unid, Unid () ||

Bagging Benfree

Track 5164 nupat a week ago
We managed to miss out on bagging Benfree on previous hikes in this area so that was today's goal. We also de... walk, Len: 12.3km, Climb: 821m, Area: Binn Charrach, Twelve Bens (Ireland) Bi||

Outage on MV now over.

Forum: Suggestions simon3 4 days ago
There has been an outage on MountainViews.ie since around 8am yesterday, 15 Sept.This was caused by a power problem at our hosting company.It now appears to have been restored at around 10:30...

Inishlacken: Heaven on Earth

Island Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: Damian120 a week ago
A deserted island that is a true joy to explore, Follow the circumference of the island in a counter-clockwise direction. No paved roads just a series of grassy paths, It's idyllic especially...

Coomnacronia Finnararagh Coomura Mountain Knockmoyle Knocknagantee

Track 5163 mlmoroneybb a week ago
walk, Len: 20.1km, Climb: 1083m, Area: Coomnacronia, Dunkerron Mountains (Irela...

Arderin: A charming summit despite its flaws

Summit Comment Leatra a week ago
I met Arderin for the first time on a hazy September Saturday, pulling into the Glendine Gap car park at S231 996 in the mid-afternoon. The start did not make a good impression: there was con...

Classic Mountain Days by Jones, Gareth Ll.

Bibliography Conodate1 2 months ago
300 page hardback photo memoir of Irish, UK, European and USA walks. Over 50 treks, 1400 colour photographs & maps. Brief geological/topographical introduction to each walk.
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Purple Mountain Area   Cen: Purple Mountain Subarea
Place count in area: 6, OSI/LPS Maps: 78, EW-KNP, EW-R 
Highest place: Purple Mountain, 832m
Maximum height for area: 832 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 597 metres,

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Tomies Mountain North Top Mountain An Chathair mullach thuaidh) A name in Irish, also Tomies Rock, also Bearna an extra EastWest name in Irish For origin of name, see Tomies Mountain. Kerry County in Munster Province, in Arderin Beg, Irish Best Hundred Lists, Purple sandstone & siltstone Bedrock

Height: 568m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 78 Grid Reference: V89121 87468
Place visited by 136 members. Recently by: jackos, farmerjoe1, Kirsty, marymac, kieran117, grainne1397, maoris, Lucy.boland, SeanPurcell, Carolineswalsh, NualaB, Krzysztof_K, Moirabourke, JohnRea, Ansarlodge
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Longitude: -9.616223, Latitude: 52.028638 , Easting: 89121, Northing: 87468 Prominence: 20m,  Isolation: 0.8km
ITM: 489095 587526,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Tms568, 10 char: TmsMntnNrt
Bedrock type: Purple sandstone & siltstone, (Ballinskelligs Sandstone Formation)

Tomies Mountain North Top is the 371st highest place in Ireland. Tomies Mountain North Top is the most northerly summit and also the second most westerly in the Purple Mountain area.
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Picture: The Gap of Dunloe from Tomies North.		  
A fine top in its own right.
by Colin Murphy  20 Jun 2022
Tomies North Top gets less press that it's big brother, but it is a very fine top in its own right, offering superlative views in all directions, including fine panoramas over Lough Leane to the east and even better vies of the Reeks. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1421/comment/23557/
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