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Cunnigar: Short trek to summit

Coast Comment Fergalh a day ago
Parked at 274896 at car park. Walked along beach after traversing a small stream, the tide was out. Go past the wooden posts in the sea and than past the gorse. The high point is obvious when...

Westtown Hill: Tramore's Highest Point

Summit Comment DeirdreM 2 days ago
It is still possible to walk up the driveway to the house mentioned previously and the trig is just to the left across a field. I knocked on their door and met a lovely lady and two big fine ...

Lobawn Loop - Clockwise avoids any steep ascent! Easy stream crossing.

Track 5072 Bunsen7 6 days ago
walk, Len: 11.7km, Climb: 506m, Area: Lobawn, Wicklow (Ireland) Lobawn, Sugarlo...

Knockbrinnea West Top: Eflanagan on the Knockbrinneas

Summit Comment eflanaga 3 days ago
From summit of its sister peak to the East there is a short walk over rocky ground passing the side of a small spot height (unless you can be bothered going over its top) to the West Top summ...

Knockbrinnea West Top: Larger Twin

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 3 days ago
This top is the larger of the two Knockbrinnea peaks. There are excellent views N to Castlemaine, NE to Killarney and SE into the Hag's Glen. It is best approached from the car-park at Lislei...

Walk on tracks above Glendalough

Track 5071 ceadeile a week ago
With the hills saturated and Mountaineering Ireland & NPWS appealing for hikers to stay off soft ground, options for a l walk, Len: 25.9km, Climb: 887m, Area: Wicklow (Ireland) ||

Ascending the Knockbrinneas from the north.

Track 5074 simon3 3 days ago
This was a surveying trip to see if Knockbrinnea was by any chance an Arderin. The most recent map from EastWe... walk, Len: 9.4km, Climb: 752m, Area: Knockbrinnea West Top, MacGillycuddy's Re|...

Knockaunanattin West Top: Views, loughs and a navigational aid.

Summit Comment simon3 3 days ago
As others have remarked, this is a summit littered with small lakes and gifted with huge views.In this picture the main Knockaunanattin is to the left with Stumpa Duloigh SW hidden in the clo...

Circumnavigation of Tawny Rower

Track 5069 glencree a week ago
This is a walk on the Western Way that circumnavigates Tawny Rower. By the standards of the long distance walking rou walk, Len: 11.7km, Climb: 424m, Area: Sheeffry Hills (Ireland) ||

Knockaunanattin West Top: First step to Stumpa Duloigh

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 3 days ago
Knockaunanattin W Top lies just north of the impressive Ballaghbeama Gap and is the first eminence on an sprawling-but-entertaining ridge that culminates in Stumpa Duloigh.Starting from the G...

Knockaunanattin West Top: Impressive defile start leads to airy ridgeline.

Summit Comment Peter Walker 3 days ago
Given the number of visits the main top has had I find it hard to believe that the English invasion (all two of us) of Knockaunanattin W Top constituted its first MV ascent, but never mind. H...

Near Church Mountain, Wicklow (Ireland)

Track 5068 glencree a week ago
walk, Len: 11.0km, Climb: 431m, Area: Church Mountain, Wicklow (Ireland) Church...
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Caha Mountains Area   W: Eskatarriff Subarea
Place count in area: 57, OSI/LPS Maps: 83, 84, 85, 88 
Highest place: Hungry Hill, 682m
Maximum height for area: 682 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 400 metres,

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Lackabane Mountain An Leaca Bhán A name in Irish (Ir. An Leaca Bhán [T6000], 'the white hillside') Kerry County in Munster Province, in Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam, Irish Best Hundred Lists, Purple & green sandstone & siltstone Bedrock

Height: 603.0m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 84 Grid Reference: V75142 53688
Place visited by 131 members. Recently by: Jimmy600leavey, maoris, Tuigamala, ToughSoles, Krzysztof_K, Sweeney, chelman7, a3642278, johncusack, NualaB, jackos, mh400nt, Hjonna, John.geary, mdehantschutter
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Longitude: -9.807567, Latitude: 51.722241 , Easting: 75143, Northing: 53689 Prominence: 287.99m,  Isolation: 1km
ITM: 475120 553755,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Lckbn, 10 char: Lackabane
Bedrock type: Purple & green sandstone & siltstone, (Caha Mountain Formation)

Lackabane is the 278th highest place in Ireland.
Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/268/
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The first or last major summit (depending on your .. by eoin   (Show all for Lackabane (An Leaca Bhán))
 
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Lackabane (<i>An Leaca Bhán</i>) in area Caha Mountains, Ireland
Picture: NE Spur of Lackabane.		  
NE Spur
by simon3  15 Nov 2017
The NE spur off Lackabane is something of a knife edge, descending steeply and with even steeper sides. Watch it on a poor day. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/268/comment/15017/
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