Truskmore 647m mountain, Dartry Mountains N: Truskmore Sligo Ireland at MountainViews.ie

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Dartry Mountains Area N: Truskmore Subarea

Place count in area: 31, OSI/LPS Maps: 16, 17, 25, 26
Highest place:

Truskmore, 647m
Maximum height for area: 647 metres, Maximum prominence for area: 560 metres,

Places in area Dartry Mountains:
N: Truskmore:

Gortnagarn 445m

Tievebaun 611m

Truskmore 647m

Truskmore SE Cairn 631m
NE: Arroo Keeloges:

Keeloges 452m
NW: Benbulbin:

Annacoona Top 597m

Benbulbin 526m

Benwiskin 514m

Benwiskin South Top 508m

Kings Mountain 462m
SE: Manorhamilton Hills:

Ballaghnabehy Top 413m

Benbo 415m

Dough Mountain 462m

Lackagh Mountain 449m

Larkfield 305m

Naweeloge Top 441m

Thur Mountain 442m
SW: Castlegal Hills:

Copes Mountain 452m

Crockauns 463m

Hangmans Hill 400m

Keelogyboy Mountain 438m

Keelogyboy Mountain Far East Top 418m

Keelogyboy Mountain NE Top 435m

Keelogyboy Mountain SW Top 417m

Leean Mountain 417m

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

Truskmore Mountain Trosc Mór A name in Irish Ir. Trosc Mór [OSI], poss. 'big barren/rocky hill’ [PDT] County Highpoint of Sligo in Connacht Province, in County Highpoint, Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam Lists, Pale orthoquartzitic sandstone Bedrock

Height: 647m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 16 Grid Reference: G75899 47348
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Longitude: -8.371608, Latitude: 54.374217 , Easting: 175899, Northing: 347348 Prominence: 560m, Isolation: 0.5km, Has trig pillar
ITM: 575855 847349, GPS IDs, 6 char: Trskmr, 10 char: Truskmore
Bedrock type: Pale orthoquartzitic sandstone, (Glenade Sandstone Formation)

The summit, which is the highest point in Co. Sligo, is surmounted by a TV mast. An access road climbs to the mast from Gleniff. There is a small but widespread group of place-names containing the element trosc in the counties along the western and northern coasts of Ireland. P.W. Joyce explained these with the word trosc meaning ‘cod’ (fish), either from a fancied resemblance of the hill’s profile to the shape of a cod, or from the prevalence of cod in the nearby seas (INP iii 586). However, neither of these explanations stand up to scrutiny. The fifteen different hills and townlands involved present a variety of quite different shapes, such as cones or flattened piles, which seems to rule out a resemblance to a fish. Some examples are 15km or more inland, making an illusion to rich fishing grounds unlikely. It seems more likely that trosc is simply an ancient Irish word for a hill which is steep and/or rocky, a word which now only survives in this group of place-names. It is also possible that the word denotes unproductive land which is poor, even for sheep grazing. It may well consist of tor, ‘rock’, metathesised to tro- and combined with the suffix -sc. Truskmore is quite rocky in parts and the land is rough pasture. Truskmore is the highest mountain in the Dartry Mountains area and the 206th highest in Ireland. Truskmore is the highest point in county Sligo.
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Truskmore (<i>Trosc Mór</i>) in area Dartry Mountains, Ireland

Picture: Tievebaun from under the cables

Eerie Noises And A Wild Landscape

by Aidy 28 Sep 2015

Went up on the RTE road, which made for an easy ascent, and there's no description of the route needed really. Amazing views on the way up over to Benwiskin and Annacoona Top, and then to Tievebaun, Gortnagara and across the Glenade Valley when at the top. The Darty Mountains really are a bit out of the ordinary. The top was also remarkable for the huge mast and its cables. There was a strong wind up there, and the noise was unearthly as it whistled and thrummed through them, with the constant hum from the equipment underneath. But the road up and all the technology couldn't subdue the real wildness of these mountains. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/201/comment/18333/

Sligo - County Highpoint with my Grandad .. by ShaunDunne (Show all for Truskmore (Trosc Mór))

Truskmore...access? I used the road to the TV tr .. by tohara99 (Show all for Truskmore (Trosc Mór))

Tieve & Trusk - Side by side .. by swoop (Show all for Truskmore (Trosc Mór))

Access issues around Sligo / Leitrim County Tops .. by Gribster (Show all for Truskmore (Trosc Mór))

Eagles ? Kinda small ones !! .. by swoop (Show all for Truskmore (Trosc Mór))

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		Some mapping: Open Street Map (Various variations used.)	British summit data courtesy: Database of British & Irish Hills (Creative Commons Licence)
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