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Mangerton Area   Cen: Dromderlough Subarea
Place count in area: 28, OSI/LPS Maps: 78, 79, EW-KNP, EW-R 
Highest place:
Mangerton, 838.2m
Maximum height for area: 838.2 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 583.2 metres,

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Dromderalough Mountain Drom idir Dhá Loch A name in Irish Kerry County in Munster Province, in Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam Lists, Green sandstone & purple siltstone Bedrock

Height: 650m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 78 Grid Reference: V96093 79013
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Longitude: -9.51215, Latitude: 51.954028 , Easting: 96093, Northing: 79013 Prominence: 45m,  Isolation: 0.5km
ITM: 496063 579073,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Drmdrl, 10 char: Drmdrlgh
Bedrock type: Green sandstone & purple siltstone, (Glenflesk Chloritic Sandstone Formation)

Located on the extensive plateau SW of Mangerton. The lakes are more distinctive landmarks than the hills hereabouts.   Dromderalough is the 199th highest place in Ireland.

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Dromderalough (<i>Drom idir Dhá Loch</i>) in area Mangerton, Ireland
Picture: Extensive views all round
 
Fine top surrounded by small loughs
Short Summary created by Colin Murphy  24 Apr 2015
This approach is from the west, incorporating Knockrower - consult that summit for initial approach. From Knockrower continue NEE, dropping down to a col at 500m before beginning a fairly gentle ascent over 1.5 km, the terrain is short grass and rocks mostly and easily navigable - although there is a steep rocky outcrop to overcome at roughly Point 953 787 starA, which requires a little scrambling. Pass the Triangle Lake (more of an L-shape) and continue NE for another 500m to attain the summit, which is marked by a small cairn of sorts. The mountain doesn't have a particularly striking aspect, but benefits from being surrounded by multiple small loughs and extensive views, which make it quite an attractive climb. Time from Knockrower: 1 hour precisely. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/194/comment/4954/
 
oldsoldier on Dromderalough, 2009
by oldsoldier  2 Aug 2009
On Sat 1 aug 2009, I decided to return to a place where I practiced my map reading and navigation during my ML. I parked my car in the upper car park of Torc Waterfall and followed the old kenmare road as far as Friars glen and onto Cores, and made a beeline for the col below Dromderalough. This is an hard route as I had to constantly avoid water between high grass tossacks and rolling spurs. I crossed the stream just below the col and followed a deer path virtually to the top. The view of the Iveragh and Beara peninsulas and the Slieve mish mountains is beyond description and made the effort all the more worthwhile. This took just under two and a half hours. After a well deserved lunch I contoured on Mangerton, passed close, on my left, to the small lake in Ferta and made my way across and down to a very obvious break in the lower skyline at V9655 8345 starB leading down to the forest and the car park. It is a long time since I descended by this gully. It has wooden steps in places and joins with an old forest track that leads back down to the old Kenmare road. Follow this track as it wriggles it way down the hillside, keep left at all junctions until you meet the Kenmare road. Turn right here and the car park is 100 metres away. A super walk and two more peaks bagged. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/194/comment/3988/
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Dromderalough (<i>Drom idir Dhá Loch</i>) in area Mangerton, Ireland
Picture: From summit towards Torc and Killarney town
Rough Walking in Untouched Wilderness
by ciarraioch  4 Nov 2012
Having previously been deterred by a series of very intimidating signs from ascending Cnoc Breac and Drom Doire Loch from the southern Kilgarvan/Mangertonbeg side, we set out instead from the Old Kenmare Road, parking just south of the bridge at V915 796 starC. Armed with Paddy MacMonagle's 1980's vintage 'Mac's Guide to the Outback of Killarney', we headed in the Killarney direction until we reached the red roofed shed at the back of Cromaglan at around V929 808 starD. We then headed cross country across the indistinct ridge taking in Stumpa Coimín, Loch na Beag Leice, Loch Gabhlán Coimín and eventually reaching Triangle Lake and Loch Caol near the summit. Very rough and isolated country. Took around 3 hours to reach the summit. Great views especially onto the Black Valley and the Reeks beyond. En route we encountered red deer on several occasions, their rutting season calls ringing across the hill side. We continued from the summit to Cnoc Breac and thence via the Loch na mBreac Dearg valley to Cnoc Ramhar and from there back to our starting point. Six tough hours overall. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/194/comment/14855/
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Dromderalough (<i>Drom idir Dhá Loch</i>) in area Mangerton, Ireland
Picture: This is a rock with a hole in it. It was the most exciting thing I saw today.
 
Here we go again
by peter1  6 Sep 2020
Ah yes...The Dromderaloughs...in cloud and rain...'climb me once, shame on thee, climb me twice, shame on me'.
I had climbed Dromderalough some years ago in Autumn, in cloud and rain, using Paddy Dillon's guide to the 2000 footers. It was before I found the MV website and realised there was another top, NE top, which is higher, so I knew that I would have to return some day. Then an MV member (?) showed that there was a third top, the NW top, exceeding the 600m mark. So, on the May Bank Holiday monday, following two days of heat and sunshine I set off again from Limerick and completed the route from the South...in cloud and rain...again. I used an approach from the South, from Kilgarvan, and although there is a 'No Trespassing' sign near the start, if you keep to the East bank of the stream coming down from the plateau, there are no signs on this side. I suspect that when the Gods was making the mountains around here, they used the Dromderaloughs as the 'Works Yard'...all the bits of rocks, tussocks, hillocks, ponds and lakes that were not used in the Reeks and Mangerton, were just left behind, randomly...I understand that the views from here are very fine. The Dromderaloughs...Ah yes. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/194/comment/19914/
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Dromderalough (<i>Drom idir Dhá Loch</i>) in area Mangerton, Ireland
Picture: looking west from summit
mart on Dromderalough, 2005
by mart  7 Oct 2005
I approached this mountain and Knockbrack beside from a small road on the Kenmare end of Kilgarvan. This road ends at a forestry entrance and nearby there are several large notices saying that trespassers will be prosecuted. I can't imagine that there is much of a problem as this is the unfashionable end of the Kerry mountains. You have to leave the main roads to even see them. The climb is straightforward and the hills are very quiet but popular with red deer. I saw a few myself. I made my climb after 3 weeks of dry weather and was impressed to find plenty of squelchy ground left. The normal conditions were also indicated by very deep valleys carved by some of the streams. The tops offer a good view of the Kenmare-Killarney district.
It looks like walking on to Mangerton itself would be a simple enough matter from here. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/194/comment/974/
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