Started walk at IG88651 88712 (210m) at Disert in the shadow of Carnaween. Having parked the car I walked the short distance down to a small cottage. Here I used a style beside a gate to cross over to the service road which runs for some distance up and beyond the windfarm towards Silver Hill. I passed through the second gate with the warning signs and at the first bend left the track to follow my bearing of 30 degrees to a hill named Meenacloghspar IG89238 90072 about 1.5K from start. Great views in all directions from the top. From here I took a bearing of 37 degrees although Silver Hill was quite plain to be seen in the distance on a clear & sunny but cool morning. There are what appear to be a number of marker posts (white top/blue bottom) following along the path of both bearings taken to this point. My next target was the lower height of 444m on Cullaghacro IG89585 90631 which required negotiation of a wet area. The first part of this, through peat hags, was easily navigable, however, in hindsight it may have been better to gain height and make for the upper level of Cullaghacro as the ground, once you cross the fence halfway between Meenacloghspar and Cullaghacro, is quite marshy requiring a degree of zig-zagging to find the driest route through. Even so it wasn't terribly difficult but may be so in more inclement weather conditions. Passing Cullaghacro I negotiated another fence and made a beeline on a bearing of 67 degrees straight for the top of Silver Hill, 1.2K away, the ground improving rapidly with ascent. The climb is relatively short and not overly difficult. The top of the mountain is covered in grey rock slabs which, presumably from a distance and in sunlight, glints silver, thereby explaining the hill's name. An obvious cairn appears as you near the summit. On reaching this another smaller cairn is visible 100m away just past the tarn and near another fence. On first glance I presumed the larger cairn at IG90659 91280 (GPS) marked the top (GPS gave height here as 597m) . In common with CSD below I was perplexed when I reached the second cairn IG90694 91376, (the first still looked the higher of the two), as GPS reading gave the height at the second as 609m. I'm presuming that CSD's grid reference for his 'higher' point refers to the first cairn I describe. This highlights the discrepancy you often get with GPS. Regardless, the views from either cairn are quite spectacular as described by GerryM below. From here it was a case of an about turn but with a slight deviation to the north of my outward route in order to tackle Carnaween (See for second part of walk). Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/278/comment/2625/

Like csd I drove up the boreen from the Glenties road and parked by the sheep pen on the crest about half a km from its end. There's plenty of room for one car, but it could be a problem after heavy rain as the surface was a bit mushy (what, rain in Donegal? Surely not). Headed down southwards to cross the stream and follow the track up the hill, then out onto easy open ground to the summit. A few outcrops gave some optional scrambly playing. As for garrettd this was my final VL, having finished Paddy Dillon's list in 1999, so I made sure to go to all the summits. As far as I could tell in the mist the heights were pretty similar. Took a more direct line down to the road end, which was a mistake as the ground was much boggier and it meant running the gauntlet of the unfriendly farm dog in the yard. The farmer called it off but the only reaction I got to a friendly wave was a scowl. Bit of a contrast to the Kerry farmer a few days before where we had blethered for ages, until his wellies started to fill with water! Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/278/comment/18728/