Cookies. This website uses cookies, which are small text files that the website puts on your computer to facilitate operation. Cookies help us provide a better service to you. They are used to track general user traffic information and to help the website function properly.

Click to hide this notice for 30 days.
Welcome to MountainViews
If you want to use the website often please enrol (quick and free) at top right.
Overview
Detail
Zoom: ??
For more map options click on any overview map area or any detail map feature.
Detail Map Features
Find Suggested Walks
Find hill, mountain, island, coastal feature.
Videos


Recent Contributions
Get Notifications

Surveying Ballineddan and Slievemaan, mucky end near Toorboy

Carrane Hill: Mostly straightforward ascent from the SW

Circuit of Slieve Gullion

Naweeloge Top: Interesting Carn with dramatic cliff face

Knockboy: Knockbui,"Knockboy"

Straightforward ascent largely up forest tracks

Douglas Top: Good views from so-so top.

Interesting top but very muddy in parts

Knockboy: Leap of faith.

Slievemore: Epic fail

Two Sugar Loaves

Skye Trail - July 2023

Conditions and Info
Use of MountainViews is governed by conditions and a privacy policy.
Read general information about the site.
Opinions in material here are not necessarily endorsed by MountainViews.
Hillwalking is a risk sport. Information in comments, walks, shared GPS tracks or about starting places may not be accurate for example as regards safety or access permission. You are responsible for your safety and your permission to walk.
See the credits and list definitions.
Video display
Donegal NW Area   N: Gweedore Subarea
Place count in area: 8, OSI/LPS Maps: 1, 10, 11 
Highest place:
Tievealehid, 429m
Maximum height for area: 429 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 304 metres,

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
Rating graphic.
Carntreena Hill Carn Traonach A name in Irish (Ir. Carn Traonach [OSI], perhaps 'cairn of corncrakes') Donegal County in Ulster Province, in Carn List, Whitish quarztite with pebble beds Bedrock

Height: 425m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 1 Grid Reference: B88839 25192
Place visited by 21 members. Recently by: Colin Murphy, Wilderness, mcrtchly, eamonoc, dregish, markmjcampion, finkey86, madfrankie, osullivanm, simon3, sandman, Fergalh, Terry-Parker, Lucky1, Garmin
I have visited this place: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.)

Longitude: -8.175509, Latitude: 55.073914 , Easting: 188839, Northing: 425192 Prominence: 70m,  Isolation: 1.8km
ITM: 588791 925175,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Crn425, 10 char: Carntreena
Bedrock type: Whitish quarztite with pebble beds, (Ards Quartzite Formation)

See Máire MacNeill, 'The Festival of Lughnasa' (pp. 140-42) for details of the festive assembly on Carn Traonach and Cnoc na Bealtaine.   Carn Traonach is the second highest hill in the Donegal NW area and the 831st highest in Ireland. Carn Traonach is the most easterly summit in the Donegal NW area.

Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/716/
COMMENTS for Carntreena (Carn Traonach) 1 of 1  
Follow this place's comments
MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Carntreena (<i>Carn Traonach</i>) in area Donegal NW, Ireland
Picture: The large cairn atop Carntreena.
 
Long walk, great views.
Short Summary created by Colin Murphy  21 Aug 2023
There is parking for several cars at the entrance to Cronalaght Windfarm. The entrance to the windfarm is gated, but there is a pedestrian gate allowing access for walkers. Proceed up the tarred access road for 2km, taking you to the unlisted Cronalagh hill. Veer NE then for another 2km, at first losing some height and then slowly gaining it again, crossing multiple large peat hag areas along the way. At point B87695 25489 starA turn directly east another 1km up the gently rising slope, taking you to the high point, which is marked by a large cairn. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/716/comment/5475/
 
MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Carntreena (<i>Carn Traonach</i>) in area Donegal NW, Ireland
Picture: Blossoming forth
View in a million
by Colin Murphy  16 Aug 2022
Descending from Carntreena or Tievealehid towards Gweedore, you are rewarded on a fine day with perhaps one of the finest views of iconic Errigal to be had - especially if the summer wildflowers are in bloom. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/716/comment/23610/
Your Score: Very useful <<  >>Average
 
MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Carntreena (<i>Carn Traonach</i>) in area Donegal NW, Ireland
Picture: View East to the Donegal Highlands from the summit of Carntreena ( Carn Traonach)
 
Harry Goodman on Carntreena, 2009
by Harry Goodman  17 Oct 2009
I climbed Carntreena (Carn Traonach) on 30 July as part of a circuit of Tievealehid (Taobh an Leithid). It has a bald, stoney, rounded top, with an expansive summit cairn and a fantastic panorama of the Donegal Highlands to the East. About 200 metres to the NNW of the large summit cairn is a small cairned rockey outcrop which is also worth a visit. To anyone wanting to climb this hill I would commend a round which includes the other nearby tops of Malaidh na Leacht and Tievealehid (Taobh an Leithid) starting at the access road to the Wind Farm on Malaidh na Leacht Map Ref. B855227 starB. A shorter and more direct approach can of course be made from some point along the N56 which runs S to N to the E of the hill. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/716/comment/3998/
Your Score: Very useful <<  >>Average
 
three5four0 on Carntreena, 2009
by three5four0  26 Oct 2009
Quite a fantastic view point for the sweep of hills from Muckish to Errigal. Got here following another one of Harry Goodman's excellent routes, and despite my attempts to drink Donegal dry of Guinness for my birthday the night before. Only regret was it was too windy to put the tripod up for the xpan. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/716/comment/4231/
Your Score: Very useful <<  >>Average
 
(End of comment section for Carntreena (Carn Traonach).)

OSi logo OSNI/LPS logo
Some mapping:
Open Street Map
(Various variations used.)
British summit data courtesy:
Database of British & Irish Hills
(Creative Commons Licence)
MountainViews.ie, a Hill-walking Website for the island of Ireland. 2300 Summiteers, 1460 Contributors, Newsletter since 2007