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Sperrin Mountains Area   NE: Glenshane South Subarea
Place count in area: 64, OSI/LPS Maps: 12, 13, 6, 7, 8 
Highest place:
Sawel, 678m
Maximum height for area: 678 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 657 metres,

Places in area Sperrin Mountains:
E: Magherafelt Hills:   Slieve Gallion NE Top 493.6m
E: Magherafelt Hills:   Slieve Gallion 526.6m
N: Claudy Hills:   Crockdooish 321mCurradrolan Hill 270mEglish 277mLetterlogher 249mMullaghmeash Hill 244mSlieveboy 259mStraid Hill 303m
NE Cen: Glenelly North East:   Barnes Top 456mCraigagh Hill 460mCrockbrack 526.1mKnockanbane Mountain 441mMeenard Mountain 620mMeenard Mtn W Top 480mMullaghaneany 627mMullaghash 480mMullaghsallagh 485mOughtmore 569mSpelhoagh 568m
NE: Glenshane North:   Benbradagh 465mBoviel Top 454mCarn Hill 448mCarntogher 464mMoneyoran Hill 414m
NE: Glenshane South:   Bohilbreaga 478mCoolnasillagh Mountain 423mCorick Mountain 430mCrockalougha 407mMullaghmore 550mWhite Mountain 537m
NW Cen: Glenelly North West:   Dart Mountain 619mDart Mountain North-West Top 525mLearmount Mountain 489mLearmount Mountain South Top 492mMullaghasturrakeen 581mMullaghcarbatagh 517mMullaghclogha 635mMullaghclogher 572mMullaghdoo 568mSawel 678m
NW: Maheramason Hills:   Clondermot Hill 220mGortmonly Hill 218mSlievekirk 370m
SE Cen: Glenelly South East:   Carnanelly 562mCarnanelly West Top 503.4mMullaghbane 467mMullaghturk 416m
SE: Cookstown Hills:   Cregganconroe 300mFir Mountain 362mOughtmore 382m
SW Cen: Glenelly South West:   Clogherny Top 408mCraignamaddy 385mCrocknamoghil 335mMullaghbolig 442mSpaltindoagh 420m
SW: Mullaghcarn:   Curraghchosaly Mountain 416mMullaghcarn 542mMullaghcarn South Top 525m
SW: Newtownstewart Hills:   Bessy Bell 420mMullaghcroy 242m
W: Strabane:   Balix Hill 403mKnockavoe 296mOwenreagh Hill 400m

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
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Bohilbreaga Hill Buachaill Bréige A name in Irish (prob. Ir. Buachaill Bréige [PDT], 'false shepherd' (a cairn or rock
resembling human figure)
Derry County in NI and in Ulster Province, in Carn List, Olivine basalt lava Bedrock

Height: 478m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 8 Grid Reference: C75955 00211
Place visited by 49 members. Recently by: Tricia-Mulligan, Colin Murphy, ElaineM76, Paddym99, Sperrinwalker, garybuz, wintersmick, Kilcoobin, bogmanpol, tinycoyle, eamonoc, David-Guenot, Fergalh, trostanite, LorraineG60
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Longitude: -6.818487, Latitude: 54.843901 , Easting: 275955, Northing: 400211 Prominence: 43m,  Isolation: 1.7km
ITM: 675887 900200,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Bhlbrg, 10 char: Bhlbrg
Bedrock type: Olivine basalt lava, (Upper Basalt Formation)

Bohilbreaga is the 639th highest place in Ireland.

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Bohilbreaga (<i>Buachaill Bréige</i>) in area Sperrin Mountains, Ireland
Picture: Small crag around 900m SW of top.
 
Flat boggy top with interesting views.
Short Summary created by Colin Murphy, simon3  24 Apr 2023
An easy inclusion if you are visiting Mullaghmore. This top can be reached from the forest entrance and parking at around H74079865 starA. Using the Waymarked Way, exit the forest at around H74949929 starB and head NE for the top, 1.3k NE. There are a few gullies, tracks and minor crags en route.
The plain, boggy summit is unmarked by any cairn, however it has an interesting view over Tyrone and mid-Ulster.
It is also possible to approach this hill from the east via Coolnasillagh - see Track 4862. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/523/comment/5282/
 
MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Bohilbreaga (<i>Buachaill Bréige</i>) in area Sperrin Mountains, Ireland
Picture: Pretty uninspiring approach to the summit.
From Glenshane Forest
by dino  28 Mar 2014
One of the strangest little hills I've climbed! I came from the North having parked at a forest gate on the A6 Glenshane Road and walked in through Glenshane Forest. The approach from the little grotto at the edge of the forest is barely visible but has a couple of simple signposts. The ground above the forest is very wet and boggy and there is extensive evidence of peat harvesting operations. The top has great views in all directions but it's hard to identify. I plumped in the end for the lone post standing forlornly on the edge of a peat hag. This top was completed as part of a 20km circuit which I will upload as a route. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/523/comment/15946/
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Bohilbreaga (<i>Buachaill Bréige</i>) in area Sperrin Mountains, Ireland
Picture: An Buachail Breaga
 
The Lying Boy & The Priests Chair
by sperrinlad  30 May 2016
walked this from irelands highest pub (ponderosa) on the Glensahne pass. we walked down the road to the entrance to the Glenshane forest, and followed the track though the forest until we reached the Grotto where you can find an old 17th century mass rock known as 'the priests chair' where we stopped to take in the history. from here we made our way towards the highest part of the forest behind the grotto and crossed the fence at the corner.
from here there is several boggy areas before reaching the summit of Bohilbreaga, with amazing view across midulster and the sperrins you could see as far as the black mountains in belfast.

**Bohilbreaga from the irish 'an buachail Breaga' meaning 'the lying boy' a reference to the lookout for the pilgrims who were saying mass at the priests chair below the summit during the penal era in Ireland. the story says how the young boy was caught by soldiers on the hunt for the priest and saved their lives by lying to them about their whereabouts. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/523/comment/18551/
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