A singular ascent of this mountain can be made from the south by parking off the road at T11251 85482 A and walking 50 metres downhill to the bridge over the river where there is a rusting metal gate into the field with a nice little bog pool just behind it to keep you on your toes (or send you on your heels). The OS map suggests there is a track leading from this gate northwards but I can assure you that as of August 2020 if there was a track here it is so heavily overgrown with waist height heather and bracken that it is more of a danger to the hillwalker than anything else.

You'll quickly find that bulling your way directly up the side of the thickly covered undergrowth is your only real option (see track 3780 for example). Thankfully there's only approximately 235m metres of ascent required to reach the summit so whilst you'll remind yourself of long forgotten steep pulls up similarly heathery hillsides you won't suffer as badly as you have done elsewhere. You'll negotiate the gorse in the lower stages and sidestep any small boulders easily, but don't expect any victims you've taken along with you to be thankful for a lovely outing. There may be one particular boulder covered boghole of interest on this side but it doesn't look deep enough to have ever have served as a store for bandits that we read about in other places and the solo summiteer has no time for such examinations.

The only thing of interest I noted on the summit area was that someone had recently been up there with some sort of all terrain ride on lawnmower and had given a few sections a close shave which just served to highlight how rounded and featureless the ages had rendered it.

Determined to confirm the non-existence of the fabled OS track I headed west off the summit and found an unsightly gouge about 2-3 metres deep and wide filled to the brim with bracken so I retreated to safety and stayed well east of the stream as I contoured back around through the heather to the gate and its little boggy pool. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/393/comment/20842/