Truskmore, Trosc Mór 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: 32, 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

Benbulbin South-East Top 505m

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:

Crockauns 463m

Crockauns West 452m

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
Place visited by 500 members. Recently by: jsg2307, eugeneryan959, Jimmel357, finkey86, ryanguinness10, abacusms, rosduke, NomisAstro, Miriamowens, grzywaczmarcin, nevgeoran, Wildcat, hikingofireland, sineadh, tonio22
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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 207th highest in Ireland. Truskmore is the highest point in county Sligo.
Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/201/

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Truskmore (<i>Trosc Mór</i>) in area Dartry Mountains, Ireland

Access update 18 Feb 2018 from carpark at IG78210 48924

by ColinCallanan 18 Feb 2018

I had intended to summit Tievebaun and/or Truskmore, and had also hoped to check out "Eagles rock" using the car park as a start point at IG78210 48924, so I proceeded to park my car at this official "Eagles rock" car park.

I heard a quickly approaching quad as I was driving in, and after reading all of the reports here about angry farmers and difficulties between walkers and local landowners, I decided right away to stop my car, get out and approach the man with a friendly attitude and introduce myself. The man was a local farmer, and after explaining to him that I was there to do some walking with my partner to enjoy the lovely weather and mountains, he responded in a friendly manner but informed us that the amazing rock formation we were looking at was not, in fact, really eagles rock at all. The information on the car park information board was misleading he said, and that eagles rock is not the impressive structure in the information photo. He pointed out a much smaller rock (see my track for photos here: https://mountainviews.ie/track/3725/ ). The track from the "Eagles rock" car park leads all the way up to this rock.

The man advised us that we could park in the carpark and take the path up this this smaller rock without any trouble. He said the neighboring farmer was very contrary, and didn't like people anywhere near his land. We said we might consider continuing on to summit Tievebaun and/or Truskmore from there also, and to this the man advised that it would be fine to do this also and there is a way up. He didn't seem to express any fears about land access, so I'm assuming he owned this part of the land and perhaps was quite friendly towards walkers. We were told that cars had their windows smashed in this carpark, but thankfully I drive an old banger so I wasn't very worried about this.

We found the track up to the smaller "eagles rock" was very good, and would be suitable for families. It gets very muddy just before you get to the rock, and you'll need to fence hop a bit to get into the rock itself and climb it. Views are incredible all around.

For summiting Truskmore and Tievebaun from this location, see my track here: https://mountainviews.ie/track/3725 Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/201/comment/19856/

Due to the apparent problems described here by ot .. by murphysw (Show all for Truskmore (Trosc Mór))

One of the things I’ve noticed when climbing hill .. by wicklore (Show all for Truskmore (Trosc Mór))

Alternative Route to mast road .. by Eamonn96 (Show all for Truskmore (Trosc Mór))

More welcoming than expected .. by AdrianneB (Show all for Truskmore (Trosc Mór))

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