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Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: Colin Murphy a day ago
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Track 5281 Colin Murphy a day ago
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Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 4 days ago
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Track 5279 markwallace a week ago
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Track 5277 Onzy a week ago
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Arigna & Bricklieve & Curlew Area   N: Arigna Subarea
Place count in area: 8, OSI/LPS Maps: 25, 26, 32, 33 
Highest place: Carrane Hill, 458m
Maximum height for area: 458 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 408 metres,

Places in area Arigna & Bricklieve & Curlew:
N: Arigna:   Carrane Hill 458mSeltannasaggart 428mSeltannasaggart SE Slope 412m
SE: Leitrim Village:   Sheemore 178m
SW: Boyle:   Curlew Mountains 255m
W: Castlebaldwin:   Barroe North 226mBricklieve Mountains 321mKeshcorran 359m

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
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Carrane Hill Hill Cnoc an Chorráin A name in Irish, also Corran an extra name in English Sligo County in Connacht Province, in Carn List, Shale & minor turbiditic sandstone Bedrock

Height: 458m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 26 Grid Reference: G84419 20660
Place visited by 42 members. Recently by: Peter Walker, bowler, markwallace, andalucia, Colin Murphy, Carolyn105, conormcbandon, geohappy, abcd, paulbrown, shnackbox, FilHil, melohara, ceadeile, rollingwave
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Longitude: -8.239165, Latitude: 54.134771 , Easting: 184419, Northing: 320660 Prominence: 408m,  Isolation: 5.8km,   Has trig pillar
ITM: 584370 820664,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Crn458, 10 char: Carane Hil
Bedrock type: Shale & minor turbiditic sandstone, (Dergvone Shale Formation)

Carrane Hill is the highest point in a range of hills known as the Arigna Mountains, or as Braulieve (sometimes Brauslieve) from Ir. Braidshliabh, 'plunder mountain'. The latter name does not appear on OSI maps but is still remembered in the area. These hills straddle the Sligo/Leitrim border, except for a chunk in the south belonging to Roscommon. An early alternative name recorded in Bethu Pátraic (The Life of St. Patrick) is Sliab hÚa n-Ailella, 'mountain of the descendants of Ailill'. See Máire MacNeill, 'The Festival of Lughnasa' (pp. 183-84) for details of the festive assembly on the mountain.   Carrane Hill is the highest hill in the Arigna & Bricklieve & Curlew area and the 708th highest in Ireland. Carrane Hill is the most northerly summit in the Arigna & Bricklieve & Curlew area.
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A view of the summit cairn. Carran Hill also has .. by simon3   (Show all for Carrane Hill (Cnoc an Chorráin))
 
Views of Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon
by karlachameleon  19 Aug 2015
Climbed Carrane Hill as part of a hike along the Miners way last weekend. Approached from Geevagh where there is a road half way up the hill which turns into a rocky trail. About two thirds of the way up there is a shrine to St. Ailbhe around the side of the hill which is worth a detour Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/590/comment/18260/
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