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Blackstairs Mountains Area   S: Blackstairs South Subarea
Place count in area: 13, OSI/LPS Maps: 68, EW-B, EW-B 
Highest place:
Mount Leinster, 794.4m
Maximum height for area: 794.4 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 706.4 metres,

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
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Carrigroe Hill An Charraig Rua A name in Irish, also Corrigruadh an extra EastWest name in Irish (prob. Ir. An Charraig Rua [PDT], 'the red rock') Wexford County in Leinster Province, in Carn List, Pale, fine to coarse-grained granite Bedrock

Height: 495m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 68 Grid Reference: S79318 41508
Place visited by 114 members. Recently by: pinchy, Timmy.Mullen, jackos, conorjob, Liamob, childminder05, maitiuocoimin, John.geary, Jonesykid, annem, a3642278, Jai-mckinney, Oscar-mckinney, Kirsty, Carolyn105
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Longitude: -6.832445, Latitude: 52.519624 , Easting: 279318, Northing: 141508 Prominence: 33m,  Isolation: 1.2km
ITM: 679237 641557,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Crgr, 10 char: Carrigroe
Bedrock type: Pale, fine to coarse-grained granite, (Blackstones Type 2 Equigranular Granite)

Carrigroe is the 585th highest place in Ireland. Carrigroe is the second most southerly summit in the Blackstairs Mountains area.

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A waypoint on the way to somewhere else .. by group   (Show all for Carrigroe (An Charraig Rua))
 
MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Carrigroe (<i>An Charraig Rua</i>) in area Blackstairs Mountains, Ireland
 
Sea of cloud
by Kennyj  26 Nov 2016
Unusual low cloud today heading towards Carrigroe Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/471/comment/18716/
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Interesting features on path .. by Pepe   (Show all for Carrigroe (An Charraig Rua))
 
We approached Carrigroe from the north, after tac .. by csd   (Show all for Carrigroe (An Charraig Rua))
 
Summit high point. .. by Colin Murphy   (Show all for Carrigroe (An Charraig Rua))
 
After reaching the summit, I elected to head back .. by csd   (Show all for Carrigroe (An Charraig Rua))
 
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