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Galty Mountains Area   Cen: Central Galtys Subarea
Place count in area: 24, OSI/LPS Maps: 66, 74, EW-G 
Highest place:
Galtymore, 917.9m
Maximum height for area: 917.9 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 820 metres,

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Greenane West Mountain An Grianán (mullach thiar) A name in Irish, also Cnoc na gCapall an extra EastWest name in Irish For origin of name, see Greenane. Tipperary County in Munster Province, in Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam Lists, Conglomerate & purple sandstone Bedrock

Height: 787.0m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 74 Grid Reference: R91253 23991
Place visited by 412 members. Recently by: maoris, mehiking, benjimann9, Josephineobrien, johnwaterford, hugh_oc, blessobilly, orlaithfitz, JordanF1, patman1974, Aidan_Ennis, discovering_dann, Jana, RonanS, DarrenY
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Longitude: -8.129152, Latitude: 52.367872 , Easting: 191253, Northing: 123991 Prominence: 39.26m,  Isolation: 1.3km
ITM: 591204 624041,   GPS IDs, 6 char: GrnnWs, 10 char: GrnnWest
Bedrock type: Conglomerate & purple sandstone, (Slievenamuck Conglomerate Formation)

Greenane West is the 54th highest place in Ireland.

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Picture: Looking into the icy castle - no shelter in there!
 
adodsk on Greenane West, 2009
by adodsk  10 Feb 2009
Into the castle... Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/53/comment/3581/
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