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Muckish: Muckish for the Summits On The Air (SOTA)

Summit Comment Claybird007 11 hours ago
Muckish Mountain stands at over 2100 feet in the range of mountains know as the Derryveagh Mountains in North Donegal. The flat top gives a very large activation zone, actually covering two Worked...

Sea Hill: Surprisingly good sea views from this hill

Summit Comment Fergalh 2 days 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 3 days ago
walk, Len: 1.5km, Climb: 16m, Area: Mayo Coastal Hill (Ireland) ||

Beenbane: Borreen to heaven

Summit Comment Fergalh 2 days 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...

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

Summit Comment Fergalh 2 days 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...

Slieve Fyagh: Gaiter day out

Summit Comment eamonoc 3 days ago
Fairly wet underfoot on this One

Typical wet North Mayo Coastal Hill

Track 4838 eamonoc 3 days ago
walk, Len: 2.1km, Climb: 85m, Area: Illanbaun Hill, Mayo Coastal Hill (Ireland)...

Kilcommon from the west

Track 4840 eamonoc 3 days ago
walk, Len: 1.7km, Climb: 46m, Area: Kilcommon 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 3 days 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...
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Mangerton Area   Cen: Mangerton 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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Mangerton Mountain An Mhangarta A name in Irish (Ir. An Mhangarta [OSI], poss. 'the long-haired (mountain)') Kerry County in Munster Province, in Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam, Irish Highest Hundred Lists, Green sandstone & purple siltstone Bedrock

Height: 838.2m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 78 Grid Reference: V98034 80782
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Longitude: -9.48441, Latitude: 51.970284 , Easting: 98035, Northing: 80782 Prominence: 583.17m,  Isolation: 1.2km,   Has trig pillar
ITM: 498007 580842,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Mngrtn, 10 char: Mangerton
Bedrock type: Green sandstone & purple siltstone, (Glenflesk Chloritic Sandstone Formation)

The Horses' Glen and the Devil's Punchbowl carve deep hollows on the north side of Mangerton, but the southern flanks form a huge plateau, one of the most extensive areas of mountain wilderness in Ireland. Herds of red deer and sika deer roam this moorland. The northern slopes of Mangerton were the scene of a great battle in 1262 between the MacCarthys and Geraldine (Anglo-Norman) forces, following the rout at Callan Glen near Kilgarvan the previous year. The battle-site is known as Tooreencormick (Tuairín Cormaic, 'little field of Cormac') from the fall of Cormac MacCarthy, brother of the chief Fingen MacCarthy, in this battle. The battle was less decisive than Callan, but as a result of these two encounters the Anglo-Normans were kept out of South Kerry and West Cork for over three centuries afterwards. An alternative interpretation of An Mhangartach may be worth considering: it could be the noun mangart + suffix -ach. Dinneen defines mangart as 'movement' or 'shaking'. Thus the adjective (not listed in any dictionary) could mean 'moving', 'shaking', 'quaking'. This could refer to the physical movement of the bog which is prevalent on the southern slopes, but perhaps it could be understood figuratively as 'vacillating' or 'fickle'. For further information on the name, see Paul Tempan, Some Notes on the Names of Six Kerry Mountains, JKAHS, ser. 2, vol. v (2005), 5-19.   Mangerton is the highest mountain in the Mangerton area and the 26th highest in Ireland.
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collywog on Mangerton, 2004
by collywog  24 Feb 2004
it was cold and very windy but well worth it for the views Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/25/comment/857/
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pazapas on Mangerton, 2004
by pazapas  9 Oct 2004
22/05/04
A very nice view on Macgillycuddy's Reek and Killarney National Park. Many people when sun shines during may. I might do a mistake. Please tell me if you recognise where my picture is taken from (Bigger at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gribouille.3d/Annexe1/Pages/2004.html). Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/25/comment/1226/
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Conor74 on Mangerton, 2009
by Conor74  6 Jul 2009
Used the standard route up, as mentioned by Beckett. Don't want to put people off, but gotta say I found this one of the more boring climbs. The first hour was just a long walk over a bog with a track through it. When I got to the Devil's Punchbowl and went around that to overlook the Horse's Glen the view opened up and that was really lovely alright. And of course the view back across the lakes was beautiful, but you'd expect that from every mountain in the National Park anway. Just thought the trek up was monotonous, the terrain didn't change, it was a view across raised bogland in every direction. Continued on across to Dromdiralough, Knockbrack and on to Kenmare, the scenery around Dromdiralough was lovely and there was much more variety in the terrain, lots of little lakes, rocky outcrops to tackle etc. etc. Would do it again alright. But wish there was a shortcut, maybe a steeper climb up some side, to take out the first hour. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/25/comment/3906/
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theloon on Mangerton, 2002
by theloon  10 Oct 2002
pretty handy and straight forward climb with easily distinguishable track all the way up Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/25/comment/153/
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jronan on Mangerton, 2007
by jronan  11 Jun 2007
Headed for Mangerton late Sunday morning. My wife and I took our time, and we really really enjoyed the walk.
Slightly Hazy view, but worth it nonetheless. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/25/comment/2733/
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collywog on Mangerton, 2004
by collywog  24 Feb 2004
the view from the top of mangerton looking over the killarney lakes Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/25/comment/858/
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