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Feature count in area: 24, all in Donegal,
OSI/LPS Maps: 10
Highest Place: Slieve League 596.4m
Starting Places (1) in area Donegal SW:
Port Pier
Summits & other features in area Donegal SW:
Maum 325m
N: Sliabh Tuaidh: Tormore Island South 94m, Tormore Island North 139m, Crockuna 400m, Slievetooey 511m, Slievetooey Far West Top 460m, Slievetooey West Top 472m
NE: Glengesh: Balbane Hill 472m, Glengesh Hill 390m, Common Mountain 499.7m, Crocknapeast 497m, Croaghavehy 372m, Mulmosog Mountain 351m, Mulnanaff 475m
NW: Glencolmkille: Croaghacullion 374m, Croaghloughdivna 310m
S: Killybegs Hills: Croaghacullin 405m, Croaghmuckros 275m, Crownarad 493m, Crownarad SW Top 471m
SW: Slieve League: Crockrawer 435.2m, Leahan 427m, Slieve League 596.4m, Slieve League SE Top 576.7m
Note: this list of places may include island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
Highest Place: Slieve League 596.4m
Starting Places (1) in area Donegal SW:
Port PierSummits & other features in area Donegal SW:
Maum 325m
N: Sliabh Tuaidh: Tormore Island South 94m, Tormore Island North 139m, Crockuna 400m, Slievetooey 511m, Slievetooey Far West Top 460m, Slievetooey West Top 472m
NE: Glengesh: Balbane Hill 472m, Glengesh Hill 390m, Common Mountain 499.7m, Crocknapeast 497m, Croaghavehy 372m, Mulmosog Mountain 351m, Mulnanaff 475m
NW: Glencolmkille: Croaghacullion 374m, Croaghloughdivna 310m
S: Killybegs Hills: Croaghacullin 405m, Croaghmuckros 275m, Crownarad 493m, Crownarad SW Top 471m
SW: Slieve League: Crockrawer 435.2m, Leahan 427m, Slieve League 596.4m, Slieve League SE Top 576.7m
Note: this list of places may include island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
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Grid Reference G67685 78636, OS 1:50k mapsheet 10
Place visited by: 28 members, recently by: bowler, Colin Murphy, eamonoc, Lucky1, Fergalh, Ulsterpooka, Wilderness, kenmoore, chalky, sandman, Garmin, juliewoods, Jamessheerin, bryanmccabe, Brambler
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Bedrock type: Banded semi-pelitic & psammitic schist, (Termon Formation)
Notes on name: There is a nearby townland in the civil parish of Kilcar named Crowanrudda, which looks like a variant form of the name of this hill. However, the townland name is interpreted at logainm.ie as Ir. Cró na Roda, 'round valley of the red iron scum'.
Short or GPS IDs, 6 char: Crwnrd, 10 char: Crownarad
Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/479/
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for Crownarad (Cruach na Rad):
Approach along track from south to distinctive summit.
Summary created by Colin Murphy
14 Jun, 2024
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three5four0 on Crownarad
by three5four0
22 Apr 2009
With another fine weekend promised by the weather forecasters , we drove to Donegal for a couple of days walking. The first days walk was to be the Crownard, & we parked in the car-park at Fintragh Bay, C (G684 764).
From the car park walk back up hill to the R263 & walk a short distance along this road towards Killybegs. Turn left at the first minor junction with the R263, walk up hill and at the next junction turn right. Follow this road a short way and then turn left at up a track at D (G690 774), follow this track up hill with views of Fintragh Bay opening up behind. Ignore a right fork at Ballyara and keep climbing up hill till E (G683 792). From here follow a spurr up hill to the ridge and Crownarad's summit trig point.
From here an easy ridge walk leads you to Cro na Roda SW Top, passing a large metal post on the way. A fine lunch spot with great views in every direction, even the wind-farm on Balbane Hill looked good in the sun. Recent tree felled areas on Mulnanaff showed forestry tracks right up onto SW ridge. This track and the Wind-Farm track up to the west of Balbane would enable a circuit to be completed of these hills from Glenaddragh rather than the softer starts from the west.
Descent was by the way of ascent, giving you the option to included Croaghacullin, as we did, in your days hike. The route is fairly straight forward, with a couple of fences to cross and several ring contours to go over or round before the summit. Even going onto Pt 394 is worth while, if you have the time, for the different perspective its views afford. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/479/comment/3734/
From the car park walk back up hill to the R263 & walk a short distance along this road towards Killybegs. Turn left at the first minor junction with the R263, walk up hill and at the next junction turn right. Follow this road a short way and then turn left at up a track at D (G690 774), follow this track up hill with views of Fintragh Bay opening up behind. Ignore a right fork at Ballyara and keep climbing up hill till E (G683 792). From here follow a spurr up hill to the ridge and Crownarad's summit trig point.
From here an easy ridge walk leads you to Cro na Roda SW Top, passing a large metal post on the way. A fine lunch spot with great views in every direction, even the wind-farm on Balbane Hill looked good in the sun. Recent tree felled areas on Mulnanaff showed forestry tracks right up onto SW ridge. This track and the Wind-Farm track up to the west of Balbane would enable a circuit to be completed of these hills from Glenaddragh rather than the softer starts from the west.
Descent was by the way of ascent, giving you the option to included Croaghacullin, as we did, in your days hike. The route is fairly straight forward, with a couple of fences to cross and several ring contours to go over or round before the summit. Even going onto Pt 394 is worth while, if you have the time, for the different perspective its views afford. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/479/comment/3734/
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White Cross
by sandman
20 May 2016
Having followed three5four0 excellent directions but parking a little further up the track i arrived at the summit (F (G67685 78636)), whose trig has a white cross painted on it . Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/479/comment/16096/
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