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Maamturks Area   S: Maumturks S Cen Subarea
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Binn Mhairg Mountain (Ir. Binn Mhairg [TR], 'peak of woe') Galway County in Connacht Province, in Arderin Beg, Vandeleur-Lynam, Irish Best Hundred Lists, Pale quartzites, grits, graphitic top Bedrock

Height: 612.4m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 37 Grid Reference: L90245 52016
Place visited by 232 members. Recently by: abeach, keith.dillon, eoghancarton, elizauna, osullivanm, mrmikelennon, a3642278, mcdonaghjo, mrfleetfoot, jlk, garv60, glencree, nevgeoran, GSheehy, annem
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Longitude: -9.654969, Latitude: 53.506864 , Easting: 90246, Northing: 252016 Prominence: 21.92m,  Isolation: 0.5km
ITM: 490219 752038,   GPS IDs, 6 char: BnMhrg, 10 char: Bin Mhairg
Bedrock type: Pale quartzites, grits, graphitic top, (Bennabeola Quartzite Formation)

Has been called Slievenaroy.   Binn Mhairg is the 263rd highest place in Ireland.

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Rocky northern ridge end, impressive cliffs to 3 .. by group   (Show all for Binn Mhairg )
 
MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain <i>Binn Mhairg</i>  in area Maamturks, Ireland
Picture: B Mhairg slabs on the left, nowhere near as steep as they look!
 
A well worthwhile but neglected scramble
by IainT  4 Apr 2018
The quartzite slabs on the NE flank of Binn Mhairg make a good scramble, one of the best in the Maum Turks. They are reachable by traversing round from the Mam Ean track, pathless but largely grassy and nothing like as rough as much of the range. The scramble is long and quite serious as the slabs cover a huge chunk of hillside, but they never get too hard (Grade 2, I reckon) and there is pretty much always an easier way at any point. It's a pretty unfrequented corner so there is a fair bit of loose rock about, but the slabs themselves are pretty solid. From the summit it's easy to loop round over Binn Chaonaigh and drop back down to Mam Ean - rough, of course, but then this is the Turks! Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/252/comment/19797/
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Didn't bother with Binn Mhairg (I was in a group .. by csd   (Show all for Binn Mhairg )
 
Nice little loop walk .. by fkaatje   (Show all for Binn Mhairg )
 
07/02/09 - The Coum between Binn Caoinigh/Mhairg .. by aburden   (Show all for Binn Mhairg )
 
Seven years later, I finally made it down those l .. by csd   (Show all for Binn Mhairg )
 
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