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Carrane Hill: Mostly straightforward ascent from the SW

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: Colin Murphy 4 days ago
One approach is from the SW starting at the forest entrance at G83605 20008, where there is parking for several cars. Continue up the zig-zagging track, ignoring any turn on left. The final 3...

Interesting top but very muddy in parts

Track 4993 Colin Murphy 4 days ago
This is probably an interesting top to bag most days. Unfortunately the day I did it there was driving rain and n... walk, Len: 5.3km, Climb: 434m, Area: Naweeloge Top, Dartry Mountains (Ireland)|...

Naweeloge Top: Interesting Carn with dramatic cliff face

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: Colin Murphy 4 days ago
There is parking for 1/2 cars on road opposite a farm track at H02172 33464. Walk up track for about 1km, crossing 4 gates, and ignoring the turn on the right after 300m. At H01204 33387, cro...

Skye Trail - July 2023

Forum: General Geo 3 days ago
My Skye TrailMost people do the trail from North to South, but I had organised permission to leave my car in the excellent Broadford community campsite on the south of the Isle.Sunday 9am, wi...

Beinn Edra: Day 4 on the Skye Trail - Summer 2023

Summit Comment Geo 3 days ago
My first summit bagged in Scotland

Knockboy: Knockbui,"Knockboy"

Summit Comment oldsoldier 4 days ago
Climbed Knockboy yesterday, 23 Nov 2023. Great drive up and busy enough. New car park at summi of road. Space for about 15 cars. Beautiful day, views amazing. Very wet underfoot. Met local fa...

Two Sugar Loaves

Track 4992 simon4 4 days ago
This route encompasses the Great Sugarloaf and the Little Sugar Loaf in a route starting from near the Glenview Hot... walk, Len: 14.3km, Climb: 753m, Area: Great Sugar Loaf, Wicklow (Ireland) Gre||

Straightforward ascent largely up forest tracks

Track 4994 Colin Murphy 4 days ago
Most of this ascent is via good forest tracks, although the tracks take you to within 500m of the summit, there i... walk, Len: 3.8km, Climb: 146m, Area: Carrane Hill, Arigna & Bricklieve & Curle|...

Douglas Top: Good views from so-so top.

Summit Comment Colin Murphy 6 days ago
Douglas Top doesn't have too many redeeming features, unless you count the ease with which it is bagged, but among them is the fine view to the north west of Slemish, standing in splendid iso...

Knockboy: Leap of faith.

Summit Comment TommyV a week ago
It's possible to take the hair raising drive to a place called Priests Leap on the Cork-Kerry county boundry at V98563 61005. From here it's possible to follow a fence which marks the county ...

Beinn Bhrotain and Monadh Mor from Linn of Dee

Track 4923 billbaggins a week ago
These two hills are usually visited either from Glen Feshie to the west or from Linn of Dee to the south-east. This ... walk, Len: 31.0km, Climb: 1194m, Area: Cairngorms (Britain) Carn Cloich-mhuil||

Slievemore: Epic fail

Summit Comment TommyV a week ago
This island is relatively straight forward to get around. Once the ferry drops you at the pier there are arrows marking the trail that can be followed, which is along the only main road runni...
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Donegal SW Area   SW: Slieve League Subarea
Place count in area: 24, OSI/LPS Maps: 10 
Highest place: Slieve League, 596.4m
Maximum height for area: 596.4 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 470 metres,

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Slieve League Mountain Sliabh Liag A name in Irish (Ir. Sliabh Liag [DUPN], 'mountain of the flagstones') Donegal County in Ulster Province, in Arderin List, Black graphitic pelitic schist Bedrock

Height: 596.4m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 10 Grid Reference: G54400 78400
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Longitude: -8.707214, Latitude: 54.651661 , Easting: 154400, Northing: 378400 Prominence: 470m,  Isolation: 0.8km,   Has trig pillar
ITM: 554359 878393,   GPS IDs, 6 char: SlvLg, 10 char: SlvLg
Bedrock type: Black graphitic pelitic schist, (Glencolumbkille Pelite Formation)

The quartzite on Slieve League splits into flagstones and was used for flooring or roof tiles. The mountain is noted for its spectacular array of cliffs descending straight from the summit to the sea, and for the dramatic One Man's Pass (Casán an Aonair). This narrow arete leading to the summit is not for the faint-hearted, especially on a windy day. All the same, it is a doddle beside the route taken in the 19th century by the botanist H.C. Hart, who traversed the cliffs of Slieve League at half-height, 1,000 ft. above the sea and 1,000 ft. below the summit. The entire journey, ending at Malin Beg, took him three days. At one point he was astonished to see footprints in front of him on this precipitous route. As he rounded the next eminence, he met an old man with his son, both eating samphire flowers. The old man was in a state of consternation to see a stranger there and pleaded with him to turn back, but Hart carried on. He reported that the route is known as Thone-na-Culliagh (prob. Tóin na Caillí). Robert Lloyd Praeger was very enthusiastic about the wide range of alpine plants on the north face above Lough Agh. There was a hermitage on Slieve League connected with St. Assicus of Elphin, Co. Roscommon. The ruins are the piles of stone still to be seen just NE of the One Man's Pass.   Sliabh Liag is the highest mountain in the Donegal SW area and the 297th highest in Ireland. Sliabh Liag is the second most westerly summit in the Donegal SW area.
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One Man's Pass .. by JonathanHession   (Show all for Slieve League (Sliabh Liag))
 
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Summer Solstice Backpack
by garrettd  5 Jul 2015
We covered the Slieve League ridge as part of a backpack, parking on the road that leads to the farmhouse at G552 800 starA. We told the lady of the house that we were parking cars there overnight and she had no issue with this and wished us well. The land above the house and all the way to Lough Agh G558 788 starB was extremely waterlogged despite a relatively dry June (in Dublin anyway). We set up camp here and made the hike over the ridge and back to the camp, unencumbered, in about three hours, The sea mist lifted for all of about two minutes at the top to give us a view of the ocean far below. I'm already looking forward to coming back here and doing the walk in better visibility. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/285/comment/18153/
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