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Feature count in area: 4, all in Kerry,
OSI/LPS Maps: 72, 79
Highest Place: Baraveha 451m
Starting Places (2) in area East Kerry:
Ballinard, Knockataggle More
Summits & other features in area East Kerry:
N: Ballydesmond: Baraveha 451m, Knockatee 410m, Mount Eagle 431m
S: Kilcummin: Knockatagglemore 330m
Note: this list of places may include island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
Highest Place: Baraveha 451m
Starting Places (2) in area East Kerry:
Ballinard, Knockataggle MoreSummits & other features in area East Kerry:
N: Ballydesmond: Baraveha 451m, Knockatee 410m, Mount Eagle 431m
S: Kilcummin: Knockatagglemore 330m
Note: this list of places may include island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
Place Rating ..
Grid Reference R09310 10351, Mapsheet(s): 72
Place visited by: 26 members, recently by: Colin Murphy, farmerjoe, daitho9, markmjcampion, Wildrover, chelman7, ciarraioch, JustMe, scapania, Fergalh, FrankMc1964, gallybander, frankmc04, hivisibility, conormcbandon
I visited this place: NO
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Bedrock type: Grey silty mudstone, (Glenoween Shale Formation)
Notes on name: The name Sliabh an Iolair is recorded as the official Irish name of an electoral division. The hill is also known as Croaghane [OSNB], an anglicisation of Ir. Cruachán meaning ‘little stack’.
Short or GPS IDs, 6 char: Mnt431, 10 char: MntEgl 431
Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/682/
Gallery for Mount Eagle (Sliabh an Iolair) and surrounds
Summary
for Mount Eagle (Sliabh an Iolair):
Name belies the reality
Summary created by Colin Murphy
21 Feb, 2025
Add a Place Comment for Mount Eagle, Sliabh an Iolair 
madfrankie on Mount Eagle
by madfrankie
27 Aug 2009
I must confess to having had a negative impression of the Mullaghareirks - one of sprawling square miles of forestry blanketing drab hills, neglected and unloved.
So it was a pleasant surprise to make a first visit and find an area somewhat less grim than expected.
There's good road that crosses a saddle with neighboring Ballinard, and here you will find the gate leading up to a windfarm at A (R0950 1110) (it was open when we visited - but there were workers fiddling around with a turbine). We walked up the road, and turned right, passing a number of windmills. As the road turned right downhill, we went left, clambering up a steep peaty bank. Once over the fence, it was only a few minutes walk up gentle grassy heathery slopes to the summit trig pillar of the grandiosely named Mount Eagle.
Good views from the top, especially towards Tralee Bay and the Slieve Mish. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/682/comment/4055/
So it was a pleasant surprise to make a first visit and find an area somewhat less grim than expected.
There's good road that crosses a saddle with neighboring Ballinard, and here you will find the gate leading up to a windfarm at A (R0950 1110) (it was open when we visited - but there were workers fiddling around with a turbine). We walked up the road, and turned right, passing a number of windmills. As the road turned right downhill, we went left, clambering up a steep peaty bank. Once over the fence, it was only a few minutes walk up gentle grassy heathery slopes to the summit trig pillar of the grandiosely named Mount Eagle.
Good views from the top, especially towards Tralee Bay and the Slieve Mish. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/682/comment/4055/
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