Coomacarrea, Com an Charria 772m mountain, Glenbeigh Horseshoe Cen: Glenbeigh Horseshoe Ireland at MountainViews.ie

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Glenbeigh Horseshoe Area Cen: Glenbeigh Horseshoe Subarea

Place count in area: 20, OSI/LPS Maps: 70, 78, 83, EW-R
Highest place:

Coomacarrea, 772m
Maximum height for area: 772 metres, Maximum prominence for area: 457 metres,

Places in area Glenbeigh Horseshoe:
Cen: Glenbeigh Horseshoe:

Teeromoyle Mountain 760m
N: Glenbeigh:

Callahaniska 219m

Coolroe 414m

Curra Hill 275m

Seefin 493m
S: Caunoge:

Caunoge 502m
S: Knocknagapple:

Colly 679m

Knocknagapple 466m

Knocknagapple NW Top 458m

Meenteog South-East Top 565m
W: Mount Foley:

Mount Foley 355m

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.

Coomacarrea Mountain Com an Charria A name in Irish, also An Sagart an extra name in Irish (Ir. Com an Charria [UR*], 'hollow of the stag') Kerry County in Munster Province, in Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam, Irish Highest Hundred Lists, Purple mudstone & siltstone Bedrock

Height: 772m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 78/83 Grid Reference: V61131 82528
Place visited by 213 members. Recently by: Kiwitrekker, Moses, Hjonna, Kforde6, mh400nt, fingalscave, Barrington1978, JohnFinn, childminder05, chelman7, JohnRea, stuartdonaldson, nolo, JohnAshton, conrad1179
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Longitude: -10.021694, Latitude: 51.977902 , Easting: 61131, Northing: 82528 Prominence: 457m, Isolation: 1.1km
ITM: 461117 582579, GPS IDs, 6 char: Cmcr, 10 char: Comacarea
Bedrock type: Purple mudstone & siltstone, (Valentia Slate Formation)

As with many names beginning with com, this name originally applied to a deep hollow on the side of the mountain. According to Seán Ó Súilleabháin the peak is also known as An Sagart. A cliff on the north-east side is named Leam a Soggorth, an anglicisation of Ir. Léim an tSagairt, 'leap of the priest' , a name which probably preserves a memory of a tale of a priest escaping from pursuing soldiers in Penal times, much like the Priest's leap between Bonane and Coomhola, near Glengarriff. On the Discovery map no. 78 the Irish name of the summit is An Tráigh [OSI], 'the strand'. Perhaps this is a humorous name for the large stony patch without turf cover near the summit. For further information on the name, see Paul Tempan, Some Notes on the Names of Six Kerry Mountains, JKAHS, ser. 2, vol. v (2005), 5-19. Coomacarrea is the highest mountain in the Glenbeigh Horseshoe area and the 62nd highest in Ireland.
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Picture: Coomasaharn Lake from Coomacarrea

A Fine Horseshoe

by JohnFinn 23 Aug 2022

Five of us did the Horseshoe on the 20th August 22 using Track 3095 (with a few slight deviations due to weather conditions). It was very windy which caused some of the group concern about traversing the narrow ridge between Keamconneragh and Teeromoyle. In the event the concern was misplaced as crossing it presented no problems. We reached the summit of Teeromoyle in driving rain but thereafter visibility improved. The descent from Meenteog as per the Track was steep but straightforward and we completed the 13 kilometre hike in 6 hours. A fine horseshoe trek and one that I would like to revisit on a clear day. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/59/comment/23627/

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		Some mapping: Open Street Map (Various variations used.)	British summit data courtesy: Database of British & Irish Hills (Creative Commons Licence)
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