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: 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.
Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/201/

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The Height of Sligo .. by group (Show all for Truskmore (Trosc Mór))

Access update 18 Feb 2018 from carpark at IG78210 .. by ColinCallanan (Show all for Truskmore (Trosc Mór))

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 4 Aug 2011

Although most of this area has poor access, due to landowners not welcoming walkers, I had a great experience today. Went for a run up Truskmore after work using the RTE mast access road. Had to climb the gate with all the signs on it, figuring they wouldn't be working after 6pm. It was really windy with dense cloud at the top, out of the gloom came an RTE engineer in his jeep, scaring the life out of me. He gave me a big wave and we both went on our way. As I was climbing back over the gate to my car I spotted a note on my windscreen, thought it might be a note about access or rights of way. But no it said "Well done! Not an easy run" Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/201/comment/6461/

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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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