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Mangerton Area , NE: Crohane Subarea
Feature count in area: 28, all in Kerry, OSI/LPS Maps: 78, 79, EW-KNP, EW-R
Highest Place: Mangerton 838.2m

Starting Places (30) in area Mangerton:
Cummeenboy Stream, Derrycunihy Church, Dunkerron Mid, Garries Bridge, Gowlane School Ruin, Hidden Valley Pet Farm, Inchimore West, Kenmare Bridge, Killarney Hiking Parking Lot, Knockanaskill N, Knocknsallagh Bridge, Loo River Junction, Looscaunagh Lough W, Lough Barfinnihy CP, Lough Guitane E, Lough Guitane SE, Lough Guitane W, Lynes Farm, Mangerton Walk N CP, Mangerton Walk Start, Molls Gap, Muckross Lake S, Old Rail Level Crossing, Poulacapple, River Roughty, Rossacroo na Loo Forest, Sahaleen Bridge, Shaking Rock W, Shronaboy Farm MTB, Torc Waterfall CP

Summits & other features in area Mangerton:
Cen: Dromderlough: Dromderalough 650m, Dromderalough NE Top 648m, Dromderalough NW Top 625m, Knockbrack 610m, Knockrower 554m, Shaking Rock 402m
Cen: Inchimore: Inchimore 256m
Cen: Mangerton: Glencappul Top 700m, Mangerton 838.2m, Mangerton North Top 782m, Stoompa 705m, Stoompa East Top 608m
NE: Crohane: Bennaunmore 454m, Carrigawaddra 425m, Crohane 650m, Crohane SW Top 477m
NW: Torc: Cromaglan Mountain 371m, Torc Mountain 534.8m, Torc Mountain West Top 479.4m
SE: Esknabrock: Esknabrock 406m
SW: Peakeens: Derrygarriff 492m, Derrygarriff West Top 382m, Foardal 409.8m, Knockanaguish 509m, Peakeen Mountain 554.7m, Peakeen Mountain Far NW Top 525.5m, Peakeen Mountain North-West Top 522.7m, Peakeen Mountain West Top 538.7m

Note: this list of places may include island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
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Carrigawaddra, 425m Hill Carraig an Mhadra A name in Irish,
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(prob. Ir. Carraig an Mhadra [PDT], 'the dog's rock'), Kerry County in Munster province, in Carn Lists, Carrigawaddra is the 830th highest place in Ireland. Carrigawaddra is the most easterly summit in the Mangerton area.
Grid Reference W06043 82019, Mapsheet(s): EW-KNP, 79
Place visited by: 32 members, recently by: compassman, hivisibility, DeirdreM, chelman7, daitho9, peter1, Fergalh, markmjcampion, Dbosonnet, Deise-Man, ciarraioch, Cobhclimber, PeakPaul, omurchu, eamonoc
I visited this place: NO (You need to be a logged-in member for this.)
Longitude: -9.368247, Latitude: 51.982805, Easting: 106043, Northing: 82019, Prominence: 50m,  Isolation: 1.4km
ITM: 506014 582079
Bedrock type: Green sandstone & purple siltstone, (Glenflesk Chloritic Sandstone Formation)
Notes on name: This peak is a south-eastern outlier of Crohane.
  Short or GPS IDs, 6 char: Crgwdr, 10 char: Crgwdr

Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/718/
Gallery for Carrigawaddra (Carraig an Mhadra) and surrounds
Summary for Carrigawaddra (Carraig an Mhadra): Rough, rarely visited but giving interesting perspectives.
Summary created by simon3 03 Apr, 2012
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Picture: Carrigwadra from the north.
Carrigwadra, the SE spur of Crohane, can be reached from the informal but traditional parking at Lough Guitane E (W0367 8454) which is at the end of an extremely potholed road reached from the N22. Go south along the pilgrims path into the extremely scenic vee between Bennaunmore and Crohane SW to the south end of L. Nabroda. Then go west 2.2km. Route finding is difficult in the complex land to the south of Crohane and it may be easiest to climb Crohane SW first. Round trip time using the same route is around 3.5 hours and it is likely to be easiest in dry spring weather when the vegetation is somewhat subdued.
It is also possible to reach Carrigwadra from Crohane, for example starting at Shronaboy Farm MTB (W042 851). Note that the north and east sides of Carrigwadra have significant cliffs. Further uptodate research will probably also confirm an earlier report that Carrigwadra can be reached from the Loo valley to the south.
Carrigwadra is a rough summit in a rough desolate area however the wilderness effect is mitigated by the wind farm to the south.
Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/718/comment/5477/
Member Comments for Carrigawaddra (Carraig an Mhadra)

The Loo valley: yes you can!, but don't...
by thomas_g 19 May 2013
Parked at the gravel area at the road junction at Loo Bridge, walked towards Kenmare on the R569 to a gate, then followed the muddy track to a green field (savour it, it will be the last you'll see). Horrible horrible ascent over boggy tufts with ankle breaking opportunities by the dozen, with the occasional scramble to get over a rock shelf. The going alternates between knee deep dead grass and tufty bog, with a section of pushing through gorse for variety. 2 hours there and back. My advice: go a different way. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/718/comment/14992/
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Picture: Carrigawaddra from the saddle between it and Crohane
sbender on Carrigawaddra
by sbender 21 Aug 2009
I started my walk at Shronaboy Farm MTB (W042 851) at a yellow cottage with a very friendly elderly lady, who even gave me some advice; "Follow the path untill you come to the sheep wire and then onto the mountain". It was an easy enough ascent to the summit of Crohane. I then followed magnetic bearing 138 to Carrigawaddra. Use this bearing only to determine where the peak is, as it is not possible to exactly follow the beeline unless you bring waders with you. It is a low-ish peak which has a terraced north west side, some mini scrambles to be found here. Then onto Crohane West Top. Again very wet ground, so you'll have to stay on the higher parts which unfortunately will make the journey a bit longer. After that I had to dog-leg it back to the slopes of Crohane. To skirt around the mountain you have to go up again to approx. 450-500m as the ground is quite rough and very steep on the north west side. Then back to the yellow cottage. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/718/comment/4028/
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Picture: Carrigawadra from Crohane SW.
A great waste of featureless ground
by simon3 3 Apr 2012
Richard Mersey in "The Hills of Cork & Kerry" mentions climbing Carrigwadra from the Loo Valley to the south, starting presumably somewhere near A (W084 813) on the R569. On p91 he says "... And so I struck over Carrigawadra. The lower slopes here are exceedingly rocky and vegetated. Soon I gained a great waste of featureless ground, with many a rocky shoulder between me and Crohane."
He made it to Crohane and back to the road in 3 hours which is good going. It took us (with me being the slower) around 53 minutes to go just from Carrigawadra to Crohane.
The picture shows some of the rough confusing ground with multiple tilts and twists to get to the rock of the dog. The skyline mast is Mullaghanish TV transmitter. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/718/comment/6748/
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