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Glan Mountain: A Glan rocker......

Summit Comment Fergalh 10 hours ago
Parked at 546993 and walked up track to base of hill. Crossed fence and headed up short slope. Ground here and on summit is a mixture of gorse, burnt gorse and bog. No marker for summit in fl...

Sea Hill: Surprisingly good sea views from this hill

Summit Comment Fergalh 10 hours ago
Parked at 515997 with plenty of parking and followed mucky track to end at field. Then I headed south west through two fields to 516991 where there is mucky track to brow of hill. At this poi...

Easy walk, with nice views towards Eagle Island

Track 4839 eamonoc a day ago
walk, Len: 1.5km, Climb: 16m, Area: Mayo Coastal Hill (Ireland) ||

Beenbane: Borreen to heaven

Summit Comment Fergalh 11 hours ago
Parked at 467988 at end of lane. Followed narrow borreen into field and crossed over this to fence. Climb over and through the gate to non descript high point with great views of the cliffs n...

Kilcommon from the west

Track 4840 eamonoc a day ago
walk, Len: 1.7km, Climb: 46m, Area: Kilcommon Hill, Mayo Coastal Hill (Ireland)...

Slieve Fyagh: Gaitor day out

Summit Comment eamonoc a day ago
Fairly wet underfoot on this One

Typical wet North Mayo Coastal Hill

Track 4838 eamonoc a day ago
walk, Len: 2.1km, Climb: 85m, Area: Illanbaun Hill, Mayo Coastal Hill (Ireland)...

Carrigshouk: Lovely loop

Summit Comment 500plusclub a week ago
Lovely loop up one side and down the other . On a clear day you have a great view north and south.

Bweengduff: The Shiddy Way?

Summit Comment Colin Murphy a week ago
This isn't a particularly interesting hill, although after a prolonged rainy period, I did see multiple gushing streams on my walk, some of them having flooded sections of the forest track. T...

A Cone with a view

Track 4837 eamonoc a day ago
walk, Len: 3.2km, Climb: 130m, Area: Cone Hill, Mayo Coastal Hill (Ireland) Con...

Bweengduff: A good forest road to access this summit

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: Colin Murphy a week ago
Park at a forest entrance W46444 88741, room for 5 cars. Follow the track into the forest , along the Duhallow way, taking the second left, then the first right, then second left then first r...

Seefin East Top: An easy bog trot.

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: Colin Murphy a week ago
This is an easy walk starting from the large carpark at W34900 86100 and following the track (which is show as part of the Dulhallow way on the Discovery map) past bog works and the access ro...
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West Cork Mountains Area   N: Conigar Subarea
Place count in area: 62, OSI/LPS Maps: 78, 79, 85, 86, 88, 89 
Highest place: Knockboy, 704.8m
Maximum height for area: 704.8 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 685 metres,

Places in area West Cork Mountains:
Cen: Maughanaclea:   Maughanaclea Hills East Top 470mMaughanaclea Hills West Top 452m
Cen: Shehy More:   Shehy More 545.6mShehy More SW Top 446m
E: Clearagh:   Clearagh Hill 287m
E: Currane:   Currane Hill 228m
N Cen: Douce:   Douce Mountain 476mDoughill Mountain 471m
N: Carran:   Barnastooka 497mBealick 537mCarran 604mCarran Far NE Top 561mCarran Far North Top 506mCarran NE Top 555mCarran South Top 567mKnockantooreen 450m
N: Conigar:   Conigar 566mConigar SW Top 566mFoilastookeen 540m
N: Coomataggart:   Carrigalougha 423mCoomataggart 530mCoomataggart SW Top 509mDerrineanig 304mLackabaun 472mMweelin 487m
NE Cen: Carrigarierk:   Carrigarierk 343m
NW: Barraboy:   Barraboy Mountain 460mBarraboy Mountain Far East Top 456mBarraboy Mountain SE Top 409mDerroograne 468mTurners Rock 420m
NW: Knockboy:   Caoinkeen 692.8mCaoinkeen South-East Top 553.5mCoomhola Mountain 472mKnockboy 704.8mKnockboy North Top 651.2mKnockboy South Top 533.3mThe Priest's Leap 519m
NW: Knocknamanagh:   Bird Hill 412mCoomclogherane Top 449mGullaba Hill 603mKnockbrack 440mKnockbrack South Top 458mKnocknamanagh 637mKnocknamanagh NE Top 625m
S Cen: Dunmanway Hills:   Cashloura 296.8mCoolsnaghtig 295.8mInchanadreen 310m
S Cen: Nowen:   Milane Hill 354.4mMullaghmesha 494.3mNowen Hill 535.2mNowen Hill Far West Top 405.2mNowen Hill SW Top 509mPookeen North Top 319m
S: Leap Hills:   Carrigfadda 311.7mKilleigh Hill 229mKnockarudane Hill 169mKnockscagh 195m
S: Skibbereen:   Barryroe Hill 156mLick Hill 158m
W Cen: Knockbreteen:   Knockbreteen 239m
W: Bantry:   Knocknaveagh 282m

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
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Conigar SW Top Mountain Cork County in Munster Province, in Arderin Beg List

Height: 566m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 85 Grid Reference: W05971 62908
Place visited by 22 members. Recently by: simoburn, Wilderness, Ulsterpooka, John.geary, Colin Murphy, madfrankie, dodser, liz50, jackos, eamonoc, Wildrover, ilenia, muddyboots, chelman7, LorraineG60
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Longitude: -9.364098, Latitude: 51.811089 , Easting: 105971, Northing: 62908 Prominence: 19m,  Isolation: 1.2km
ITM: 505941 562972,   GPS IDs, 6 char: CngrSW, 10 char: CngrSWTp


Conigar SW Top is the 374th highest place in Ireland.
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Conigar SW Top in area West Cork Mountains, Ireland
Picture: The mountain from the SW.		  
Approach from SW.
Short Summary created by Colin Murphy  31 May 2022
One approach is from Gougane Barra, taking in Foilastookeen and Conigar itself. An alternative is to approach from the SW, parking at W04035 60935 starA, just north of a religious grotto. Walk up the road (north) about 400m and you will see a track up through farmland on the right at W04203 61392 starB. As this is a farm track, you may need to ask permission if there is anyone about. After about 200m go over a gate on the left onto a slightly rougher track , which continues for about 0.5km. Leave it anywhere suitable and continue NE up the spine of the mountain. The terrain is a little rough in places but generally passable - grass and some heather. Continue ascending NNE for about 2 km to reach the summit, which is just a slightly raised mound of earth and rock. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1516/comment/20807/
 
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View from the summit.
by hivisibility  28 Jul 2020
Summit area of Conigar SW Top looking towards Bantry Bay and Whiddy Island. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1516/comment/20831/
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Unremarkable summit with nice views of the Borlin Valley
by ilenia  30 Dec 2020
Low level hike after Storm Bella. Still very windy with hail and sleet showers throughout the day. 
Parked in Kealkill at W04820 56498 starC and headed north past Carriganass Castle and Lough Atooreen and then up the Kilgarvan road in the Borlin Valley. For a shorter walk you can drive up instead. 
I left the main road at W04866 62461 starD, a 2 hour walk from Kealkill, to head across the open hillside. I reached the summit after an hour but it would take much less in nicer weather. I followed the fence most of the way up and handrailed it on the way down when the ground was too slippy. The ground is boggy which is pretty common in this area and the summit is unmarked.
I had tried to get here from Gougane Barra back in October but the ground was waterlogged and I stuck to the Beara Way instead. Nice to end an awful year by visiting my last Arderin Beg. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1516/comment/21894/
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Picture: The lough just NE of the summit.
Spring wildflowers abloom...
by Colin Murphy  31 May 2022
The hills in the area were carpeted with a multitude of spring wildflowers, including furze, marsh clover, heather, colourful mosses and veritable football pitch sized spreads of bog cotton. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1516/comment/23530/
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