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Track 4995 Onzy 2 hours ago
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Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: Colin Murphy 5 days ago
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Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: Colin Murphy 5 days ago
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Summit Comment oldsoldier 5 days ago
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Cronamuck Hill Cruach na mBoc A name in Irish Ir. Cró na mBoc [logainm.ie], 'hollow of the bucks’ Donegal County in Ulster Province, in Carn List, Main granite (adamellite) Bedrock

Height: 444m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 11 Grid Reference: H01153 91858
Place visited by 17 members. Recently by: madfrankie, Colin Murphy, eamonoc, gerrym, melohara, noucamp, johncromie, Aidy, Fergalh, mark-rdc, Garmin, osullivanm, simon3, Brambler, jmcg
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Longitude: -7.982867, Latitude: 54.774615 , Easting: 201153, Northing: 391858 Prominence: 89m,  Isolation: 0.7km
ITM: 601102 891848,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Crnmck, 10 char: Cronamuck
Bedrock type: Main granite (adamellite), (Barnesmore Granite, G2 variety)

This is one of a number of Donegal hill names in which the element cró (which normally means 'a hollow' or 'a sheep-pen') has apparently become confused with cruach ('stack').   Cronamuck is the 758th highest place in Ireland.
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Cronamuck (<i>Cruach na mBoc</i>) in area Bluestack Mountains, Ireland
Picture: Cronamuck, showing its steep west flank.		  
Granite knob at the end of a ridge.
Short Summary created by simon3  20 May 2013
This summit can be reached using the ridge extending NE from Croaghbarnes and there are suggestions it could be reached from Commeen to the north on the R253.
Cronamuck has views over towards Gaugin Mountain, Croaghbane and the magnificent but unfrequented Owendoo River valley.
Underfoot Cronamuck and nearby is made of often bare worn granite. The summit appears to be an unattached boulder of perhaps a metre in height.
A potential hazard is that on its west, north and east there are small rivers that could become impassable at short notice in wet weather. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/638/comment/5397/
 
Start of a brilliant ridge leading to the Bluesta .. by gerrym   (Show all for Cronamuck (Cruach na mBoc))
 
Exhausting, But Worth It .. by Aidy   (Show all for Cronamuck (Cruach na mBoc))
 
It's out there .. by eamonoc   (Show all for Cronamuck (Cruach na mBoc))
 
Walked from Barnesmore Gap to Commeen and Cronamu .. by murphysw   (Show all for Cronamuck (Cruach na mBoc))
 
As tough as they come. .. by Colin Murphy   (Show all for Cronamuck (Cruach na mBoc))
 
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