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Mweelrea Area   W: Mweelrea Subarea
Place count in area: 12, OSI/LPS Maps: 37, EW-CON, MSW 
Highest place:
Mweelrea, 814m
Maximum height for area: 814 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 779 metres,

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Mweelrea Mountain Maol Réidh A name in Irish, also Muilrea an extra EastWest name in English (Ir. Cnoc Maol Réidh [GE], 'bald hill with the smooth top') County Highpoint of Mayo in Connacht Province, in County Highpoint, Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam, Irish Best Hundred, Irish Highest Hundred Lists, Sandstone & conglomerate, ignimbrite Bedrock

Height: 814m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 37 Grid Reference: L78983 66810
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Longitude: -9.830313, Latitude: 53.637241 , Easting: 78983, Northing: 266810 Prominence: 779m,  Isolation: 1.5km
ITM: 478962 766828,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Mwlr, 10 char: Mweelrea
Bedrock type: Sandstone & conglomerate, ignimbrite, (Mweelrea Formation)

Mweelrea is the highest mountain in Connacht. The use of the adjective réidh, ‘smooth’, does not have many parallels in Irish hill-names and seems rather unsuited to rugged Mweelrea. Whilst impossible to prove, it seems plausible that this was once a Brittonic name containing bre, comparable to Welsh moelfre ‘bald hill’, of which there are at least seven instances in Wales. A number of townlands in Co. Down called Drummiller or Miller Hill could well have the same origin, the addition of tautological Ir. droim or Eng. hill being a later development.   Mweelrea is the highest mountain in the Mweelrea area and the 35th highest in Ireland. Mweelrea is the highest point in county Mayo.

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The big one!!!
by Colin Murphy  30 May 2016
The was a big one in every sense of the word for me - my final Arderin!!!! I started this quest sometime in the mid-to-late nineties, so I reckon its taken me close to twenty years, but what was the rush? My daughter kindly anticipated the event and had a T-shirt printed to mark the event. Thanks to my friend Madfrankie for all his suggestions regarding routes etc down the years and for all the times I was too cold to take my hands from my pockets so left the navigating to him! Thanks also to Simon Stewart for providing the website that allows us to log our climbs, which really helps to provide a target to work towards and the necessary information to actually get out on to the hills. Anyway, one list completed, on to the County Highpoints and Vandeleur-Lynam! Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/34/comment/18547/
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