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Loughsalt Mountain 469m,
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Glan Mountain: A Glan rocker......

Summit Comment Fergalh 3 hours ago
Parked at 546993 and walked up track to base of hill. Crossed fence and headed up short slope. Ground here and on summit is a mixture of gorse, burnt gorse and bog. No marker for summit in flat ar...

Sea Hill: Surprisingly good sea views from this hill

Summit Comment Fergalh 3 hours ago
Parked at 515997 with plenty of parking and followed mucky track to end at field. Then I headed south west through two fields to 516991 where there is mucky track to brow of hill. At this point he...

Beenbane: Borreen to heaven

Summit Comment Fergalh 4 hours ago
Parked at 467988 at end of lane. Followed narrow borreen into field and crossed over this to fence. Climb over and through the gate to non descript high point with great views of the cliffs nearby

Kilcommon from the west

Track 4840 eamonoc a day ago
walk, Len: 1.7km, Climb: 46m, Area: Kilcommon Hill, Mayo Coastal Hill (Ireland)...

Carrigshouk: Lovely loop

Summit Comment 500plusclub a week ago
Lovely loop up one side and down the other . On a clear day you have a great view north and south.

Slieve Fyagh: Gaitor day out

Summit Comment eamonoc a day ago
Fairly wet underfoot on this One

Easy walk, with nice views towards Eagle Island

Track 4839 eamonoc a day ago
walk, Len: 1.5km, Climb: 16m, Area: Mayo Coastal Hill (Ireland) ||

Bweengduff: The Shiddy Way?

Summit Comment Colin Murphy a week ago
This isn't a particularly interesting hill, although after a prolonged rainy period, I did see multiple gushing streams on my walk, some of them having flooded sections of the forest track. T...

Bweengduff: A good forest road to access this summit

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: Colin Murphy a week ago
Park at a forest entrance W46444 88741, room for 5 cars. Follow the track into the forest , along the Duhallow way, taking the second left, then the first right, then second left then first r...

Typical wet North Mayo Coastal Hill

Track 4838 eamonoc a day ago
walk, Len: 2.1km, Climb: 85m, Area: Illanbaun Hill, Mayo Coastal Hill (Ireland)...

Seefin East Top: An easy bog trot.

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: Colin Murphy a week ago
This is an easy walk starting from the large carpark at W34900 86100 and following the track (which is show as part of the Dulhallow way on the Discovery map) past bog works and the access ro...

Seefin: An easy road with distant balcony views but nearby clutter

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: Colin Murphy a week ago
This is an easy walk starting from the large carpark at W34900 86100 and following the track (which is show as part of the Dulhallow way on the Discovery map) past bog works along the access ...
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Donegal Central Area   NE: Loughsalt Hills Subarea
Place count in area: 15, OSI/LPS Maps: 1, 2, 6 
Highest place: Moylenanav, 539m
Maximum height for area: 539 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 364 metres,

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Loughsalt Mountain Hill Cnoc an Liatháin A name in Irish (Ir. Cnoc an Liatháin [MacNeill*], 'hill of the little grey one') Donegal County in Ulster Province, in Carn List, Whitish quartzite with pebble beds Bedrock

Height: 469m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 2 Grid Reference: C13321 26482
Place visited by 78 members. Recently by: kernowclimber, Wilderness, eamonoc, trekker, fx, Cathal-Kelly, madfrankie, trostanite, Jojo1891, jackill, dregish, Q35on, paulbrown, Fergalh, mcrtchly
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Longitude: -7.792195, Latitude: 55.08545 , Easting: 213321, Northing: 426482 Prominence: 364m,  Isolation: 3.2km,   Has trig pillar
ITM: 613267 926465,   GPS IDs, 6 char: LghsMn, 10 char: LghsltMntn
Bedrock type: Whitish quartzite with pebble beds, (Slieve Tooey Quartzite Formation)

See Máire MacNeill, 'The Festival of Lughnasa' (pp. 143-44) for details of the festive assembly on Ganiamore.   Loughsalt Mountain is the second highest hill in the Donegal Central area and the 667th highest in Ireland. Loughsalt Mountain is the second most northerly summit in the Donegal Central area.
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Short walk and great views. .. by group   (Show all for Loughsalt Mountain (Cnoc an Liatháin))
 
A popular attraction for quite a long time
by ceadeile  10 Dec 2019
Thomas Wright (1711 – 1786) the noted English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer was the first to describe the shape of the Milky Way and to speculate that faint nebulae were distant galaxies. He visited Ireland in 1746 and travelled to Donegal where he "din'd upon ye mountains of Lock Salt in full view of Aragle and Muckish" Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/553/comment/20693/
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