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Saggart Hill: Masts and prehistoric tombs

Summit Comment hibby 2 hours ago
This turned out to be a surprisingly pleasant walk on a sunny Sunday morning, through mixed woodland with lots of birdsong. It's a popular spot for off-road cyclists, who were all very courteous.T...

Cupidstown Hill: 5 minutes walk to the top of Kildare

Summit Comment hibby 2 hours ago
Some changes since our last visit to this summit 5 years ago. The landowner has installed a gate leading to the field and the trig-point marker. And he/she has very thoughtfully installed a bench ...

Crott Mountain, near Croagh Patrick, now demo

Forum: Suggestions simon3 7 hours ago
Following surveying it was found that Crott Mountain, shown as 500m on both OSI and EastWest maps as 500m is actually 499.7 This qualifies it only as a Carn but no longer as an Arderin.If summitee...

Tievummera, Sheefrys change. Needs action.

Forum: Suggestions simon3 8 hours ago
On surveying Tievummera in the Sheefrys it turned out that the trig pillar is nowhere near the highest point. It's actually some 600m further west.So we have labelled the previously named "Tievumm...

Tievummera Highpoint: Undistinguished highpoint of spectacular Sheefry scarp.

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 8 hours ago
This is the highest point on the long Tievummera part of the Sheefry scarp. Be aware that the bump with the trig pillar is slightly lower than this summit and is therefore not the VL/ Arderin.The ...

Tievummera Trig: Bump with trig pillar on long scarp with steep slope to the nor

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 8 hours ago
Be aware that this summit is slightly lower than Tievummera Highpoint, which is ~600m to the West. From the SE, start at L87195 67480. Use the forest roads to gain height and then go on to the ver...

Teevenacroaghy: Misty Achill.

Summit Comment simon3 2 days ago
One May day this watery view opened towards Achill over Clew Bay. To the left the twin humps of the two tops on Achillbeg Island. To the rear, Slievemore in the mist.

A visit to Tievummera via its South East spur.

Track 5092 simon3 2 days ago
Starting from the Glenummera River, this route uses the forest to gain height on a forest road. The forest as of... walk, Len: 11.9km, Climb: 712m, Area: Tievummera, Sheeffry Hills (Ireland) Ti||

Ben Creggan: Craggy summit with long descending spur to the east.

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 2 days ago
Park at L888 673 in the entrance to a Coillte forest. Cross the road and begin to ascend the long ridge on the eastern side of Ben Creggan. This is a fairly gently rising slope about 3km long...

Dorinish More: Shapely islands in Clew Bay, Co Mayo.

Island Comment simon3 2 days ago
Dorinish More and the nearer Dorinish Beg look like a bird in this picture from Teeveenacroaghy.on the ridge east of Croagh Patrick.

Croagh Patrick's ridge to the east, visited from the south.

Track 5091 simon3 2 days ago
This route starts from the Mayo Mountain rescue post, where there's parking for probably 15 vehicles. The rout... walk, Len: 9.9km, Climb: 442m, Area: Crott Mountain, Croagh Patrick (Ireland) |...

Crott Mountain: Quiet Arderin Beg at the east end of the Croagh Patrick ridge.

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 2 days ago
Like all of the summits on this EW ridge it has a magnificent view of the islands of Clew Bay, the Achill to Nephin skyline and the south Mayo mountains such as Mweelrea. One start is at L 9...
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Crocknasharragh Hill Cnoc na Searrach A name in Irish Ir. Cnoc na Searrach [logainm.ie], 'hill of the foals’ Donegal County in Ulster Province, in Carn List, Coarse biotite granite & granodiorite Bedrock

Height: 495m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 1 Grid Reference: B89760 12741
Place visited by 24 members. Recently by: Colin Murphy, AlanReid, markmjcampion, eamonoc, Lucky1, trostanite, finkey86, melohara, shaunkelly, kmoore, r254donegal, simoburn, David-Guenot, Wilderness, Fergalh
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Longitude: -8.160644, Latitude: 54.962094 , Easting: 189760, Northing: 412741 Prominence: 80m,  Isolation: 1.5km
ITM: 589711 912727,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Crckns, 10 char: Crcknshrgh
Bedrock type: Coarse biotite granite & granodiorite, (Main Donegal Granite)

Named Crockatarrive on the 1st series of 6" maps.   Cnoc na Searrach is the 585th highest place in Ireland.
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