Cookies. This website uses cookies, which are small text files that the website puts on your device to facilitate operation. Cookies help us provide a better service to you. They are used to track general user traffic information and to help the website function properly.

Click to hide this notice for 30 days.
Welcome to MountainViews
If you want to use the website often please enrol (quick and free) at top right.
Overview
Detail
Zoom: ??
For more map options click on any overview map area or any detail map feature.
Find Suggested Walks
Find hill, mountain, island, coastal feature.
Videos

Users Online:
abeach, Padraigin, des carroll
Guests online: 631
Recent Contributions
Get Notifications

Bricklieve Mountains, archaeological tour.

Keecragh Mountain: Two choices for ascent from North

Crockauns West: Fine view from 'cairn'.

Killerry Mountain

Crockauns: Short steep climb to good views

Beinn Fhionnlaidh (Etive) from Glen Creran

Slievecorragh: Chair and cairn, teddy and ravens

Larkfield: No signage, helpful or otherwise

Spain: Sierra Nevada, Juego de Bolos

Meall nan Eun: Viewed from Meall Tarsuinn

Meall Tarsuinn: Summit Cairn with Stob Coire an Albannaich beyond

Spain: Monachil Puppy Walk

Conditions and Info
Use of MountainViews is governed by conditions and a privacy policy.
Read general information about the site.
Opinions in material here are not necessarily endorsed by MountainViews.
Hillwalking is a risk sport. Information in comments, walks, shared GPS tracks or about starting places may not be accurate for example as regards safety or access permission. You are responsible for your safety and your permission to walk.
See the credits and list definitions.
Video display
Derrynasaggart Area   Cen: Knocknabro Subarea
Place count in area: 24, OSI/LPS Maps: 79 
Highest place:
The Paps East, 694m
Maximum height for area: 694 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 623 metres,

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
Rating graphic.
Knocknabro West Top Mountain Cnoc na Breo (mullach thiar) A name in Irish poss. Ir. Cnoc na Breo [PDT], ‘hill of the cut’ Kerry County in Munster Province, in Arderin List, Green sandstone & purple siltstone Bedrock

Height: 592m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 79 Grid Reference: W15378 85392
Place visited by 73 members. Recently by: maoris, farmerjoe1, garrettd, abcd, farmerjoe, NualaB, johncusack, a3642278, Denis-Barry, nupat, mountainmike, Ulsterpooka, Hillwalker65, eoghancarton, jackos
I have visited this place: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.)

Longitude: -9.23329, Latitude: 52.014629 , Easting: 115378, Northing: 85392 Prominence: 147m,  Isolation: 1.4km
ITM: 515344 585453,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Knc592, 10 char: KncknbWstT
Bedrock type: Green sandstone & purple siltstone, (Glenflesk Chloritic Sandstone Formation)

This is the highest of the three tops of Knocknabro. The peak marked as Knocknabro on OSi maps is somewhat lower (530m) than this peak. The origin of the name is uncertain. John O’Donovan suggested Cnoc na Bró, ‘hill of the quern’, though without any explanation of the name. Another possibility is that the final element is the same as in Broemountain. In Welsh briw means ‘cut’ or ‘wound’. This may refer to the declivity between the two peaks which forms a pass between Rathmore to the N and the Clydagh Valley to the S. See also Broemountain, Inishnabro and Brow Head.   Knocknabro West Top is the 314th highest place in Ireland.

Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/292/
COMMENTS for Knocknabro West Top (Cnoc na Breo (mullach thiar)) 1 of 1  
Follow this place's comments
Drowning is never easy .. by group   (Show all for Knocknabro West Top (Cnoc na Breo (mullach thiar)))
 
I seldom say this, but I am glad that having been .. by jackill   (Show all for Knocknabro West Top (Cnoc na Breo (mullach thiar)))
 
A Long Hard Slog .. by CaminoPat   (Show all for Knocknabro West Top (Cnoc na Breo (mullach thiar)))
 
MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Knocknabro West Top (<i>Cnoc na Breo (mullach thiar)</i>) in area Derrynasaggart, Ireland
Picture: The Paps as seen from high point
 
Won't knock your socks off
by Colin Murphy  30 Mar 2022
Followed jackal's directions to the top. The farmer's track he references (off the main track) now has signs stating that it is private property, although no specifically forbidding walkers, which I took to be a good sign. It was very swampy initially, although became firm and grassy further up and relatively easy to navigate. I was doing this mountain essentially as a means of accessing the two Arderin Begs to the east, and like other contributors, would hold no great love for its heathery, almost featureless summit, except for the fine views it affords of the adjacent Paps. Less than an hour to the top and fine weather made the ascent relatively pleasant. Won't be back though! Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/292/comment/23457/
Your Score: Very useful <<  >>Average
 
(End of comment section for Knocknabro West Top (Cnoc na Breo (mullach thiar)).)

OSi logo OSNI/LPS logo
Some mapping:
Open Street Map
(Various variations used.)
British summit data courtesy:
Database of British & Irish Hills
(Creative Commons Licence)
MountainViews.ie, a Hill-walking Website for the island of Ireland. 2400 Summiteers, 1480 Contributors, maintainer of lists: Arderins, Vandeleur-Lynams, Highest Hundred, County Highpoints etc