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Twelve Bens
Area
Place count in area: 38,
OSI/LPS Maps: 37, 44, MSW
Highest place:
Benbaun, 729m
Maximum height for area: 729 metres,
Maximum prominence for area: 684 metres,
Places in area Twelve Bens:
An Chailleach 632m
Benbrack 582mBenchoona 581mBenchoona East Top 585mBencorrbeg 577mBenglenisky 516mBenlettery 577mBinn an tSaighdiúra 653mBinn Bhán 729mBinn Bhán 477mBinn Bhraoin 691mBinn Bhraoin Central Top 680mBinn Bhraoin North Top 674mBinn Bhreac 454mBinn Charrach 412mBinn Chorr 711mBinn Chorr North Top 690mBinn Doire Chláir 677mBinn Dubh 696mBinn Fraoigh 638mBinn Gabhar 664mBinn Ghuaire 442mCnoc Breac 442mCregg 297mCurrywongaun 273mDoughruagh 526mDoughruagh South Top 525mGarraun 598mGarraun South Top 556mGarraun South-West Top 549mGortrumnagh 174mKnockaunbaun 146mLeitir Eitreann 333mMaumfin 172mMaumonght 602mMuckanaght 654mTownaloughra East Top 216mTully Mountain 356m
Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
Highest place:
Benbaun, 729mPlaces in area Twelve Bens:
An Chailleach 632mBenbrack 582mBenchoona 581mBenchoona East Top 585mBencorrbeg 577mBenglenisky 516mBenlettery 577mBinn an tSaighdiúra 653mBinn Bhán 729mBinn Bhán 477mBinn Bhraoin 691mBinn Bhraoin Central Top 680mBinn Bhraoin North Top 674mBinn Bhreac 454mBinn Charrach 412mBinn Chorr 711mBinn Chorr North Top 690mBinn Doire Chláir 677mBinn Dubh 696mBinn Fraoigh 638mBinn Gabhar 664mBinn Ghuaire 442mCnoc Breac 442mCregg 297mCurrywongaun 273mDoughruagh 526mDoughruagh South Top 525mGarraun 598mGarraun South Top 556mGarraun South-West Top 549mGortrumnagh 174mKnockaunbaun 146mLeitir Eitreann 333mMaumfin 172mMaumonght 602mMuckanaght 654mTownaloughra East Top 216mTully Mountain 356mNote: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
also Bendouglas an extra name in English
Bedrock type: Pale quartzites, grits, graphitic top, (Bennabeola Quartzite Formation)
The townland of Lettery (Leitrí, 'wet hillsides') is on the S slopes of this mountain. The alternative name Bindowglass or Bendouglas (Binn Dúghlais, 'peak of the black stream') is recorded as early as 1684 by Roderic O'Flaherty. Note that both names refer to the wet state of the mountain. O'Flaherty mentions a pool of water on the summit which turns the hair white of anyone who washes in it. In the days before accurate measurements of altitude, he erroneously believed that Bindowglass was the highest of the Twelve Bens and was two miles high. This misconception was corrected by James Hardiman, who edited O'Flaherty's work in 1846, aware that the Ordnance Survey had found that Ben Corr and Ben Bawn exceed it in height by several hundred feet (O'Flaherty, 107). Benlettery is the 345th highest place in Ireland. Benlettery is the most southerly summit in the Twelve Bens area.
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