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

Summit Comment Claybird007 20 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...

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...

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) ||

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...

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...

Typical wet North Mayo Coastal Hill

Track 4838 eamonoc 4 days ago
walk, Len: 2.1km, Climb: 85m, Area: Illanbaun Hill, Mayo Coastal Hill (Ireland)...

Slieve Fyagh: Gaiter day out

Summit Comment eamonoc 4 days ago
Fairly wet underfoot on this One

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.

Kilcommon from the west

Track 4840 eamonoc 3 days ago
walk, Len: 1.7km, Climb: 46m, Area: Kilcommon Hill, Mayo Coastal Hill (Ireland)...

A Cone with a view

Track 4837 eamonoc 4 days ago
walk, Len: 3.2km, Climb: 130m, Area: Cone Hill, Mayo Coastal Hill (Ireland) Con...

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...

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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Purple Mountain Area   Cen: Purple Mountain Subarea
Place count in area: 6, OSI/LPS Maps: 78, EW-KNP, EW-R 
Highest place: Purple Mountain, 832m
Maximum height for area: 832 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 597 metres,

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Purple Mountain Mountain An Sliabh Corcra A name in Irish This is almost certainly a name coined in English. Kerry County in Munster Province, in Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam, Irish Highest Hundred Lists, Well-bedded grey sandstone Bedrock

Height: 832m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 78 Grid Reference: V88640 85172
Place visited by 545 members. Recently by: maitiuocoimin, Moses, johncusack, SmirkyQuill, owen, Barrington1978, Beti13, tomodub, caiomhin, Denis-Barry, Roswayman, Tifred, FoxyxxxLoxy, eiremountains, ahogan
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Longitude: -9.62251, Latitude: 52.007906 , Easting: 88640, Northing: 85172 Prominence: 597m,  Isolation: 1km
ITM: 488612 585230,   GPS IDs, 6 char: PrplMn, 10 char: PrplMntn
Bedrock type: Well-bedded grey sandstone, (Lough Acoose Sandstone Formation)

In his Topographical Dictionary of Ireland of 1837, Samuel Lewis reports that Purple Mountain is ‘so called from the colour of the shivered slate on its surface.’ The Irish version looks like a back-translation from the English by OSI. References to Tomish or Toomish Mountain (i.e. Tomies) in The Ancient and Present State of the County of Kerry (1756) by Charles Smith make it clear that this name applied to the whole of what is now known as Purple Mountain. A number of 19th century sources confirm this, and this explains why Purple Mountain is not marked on the 6 map, though Tomies and Shehy Mountain are.   Purple Mountain is the highest mountain in the Purple Mountain area and the 28th highest in Ireland. Purple Mountain is the most westerly summit and also the second most southerly in the Purple Mountain area.
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foggy day on purple
by petercrowley  25 Aug 2013
followed joss lynam,s route to the top. there is parking right at the start of the stream and fence. stopped for food at glas loch and up the ladder to purple. the last part is a scramble to the first top with lots of trails starting and pettering out. a lesson was learned today because we forgot our compass and as we know its easy to find the top because its straight up but when descending in the fog we ventured too far west, by the time we escaped the fog we saw we were above gap bridge and had to cross the mountain back to the top of the ladder by glas loch. all in all a good day out and we agreed that purple in the fog was our first real taste of wilderness in ireland. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/27/comment/15094/
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Purple Mountain (<i>An Sliabh Corcra</i>) in area Purple Mountain, Ireland
Picture: Summit cairn and shelter		  
Jaunting car chaos
by Colin Murphy  3 Aug 2014
The drive up from Kate Kearney’s Cottage took me almost as long as the ascent up Purple Mountain from the Gap of Dunloe, due to the traffic jam of jaunting cars along the narrow road at 11am. I’d suggest anyone wishing to start from this point approach from the road to the south, or you’ll waste a good 45 minutes of your day! Having said that, it is a fine walk up a sizeable and distinctive mountain, topped with a cairn and an old ring shelter, which provides welcome relief from the cold wind that seems a permanent feature of the summit. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/27/comment/17585/
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