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Feature count in area: 24, by county: Kerry: 12, Cork: 14, of which 2 are in both Cork and Kerry,
OSI/LPS Maps: 79
Highest Place: The Paps East 694m
Starting Places (28) in area Derrynasaggart:
Carrigallisy, Clonee, Dromiscane Castle, Fuhiry Wood, Garrane Bridge, Garries Bridge, Glannafreaghaun Lough N, Glannafreaghaun Lough S1, Glannafreaghaun Lough S2, Gortavehy Lough, Grousemount Wind Farm, Inchamore Woods N, Inchamore Woods W, Kippagh Lough, Knocknabro Wood, Knockullane, Liam Hegarty Monument, Loo River Junction, Lough Murtagh, Millstreet, Mullaghanish Transmitter Gate, Old Rail Level Crossing, Paps Walk S, River Roughty, Rossacroo na Loo Forest, Sillahertane Stream, The Mills Inn, Top of Coom
Summits & other features in area Derrynasaggart:
Cen: Knocknabro: Knocknabro East Top 530m, Knocknabro NE Top 535m, Knocknabro West Top 592m, Knocknagowan 574m
N: Caherbarnagh: Caherbarnagh 681m, Caherbarnagh East Top 549m, Caherbarnagh NW Top 668m, Claragh Mountain 452m, Curracahill 478m
SE: Mullaghanish: Ballyvouskill 401m, Knockacommeen 426m, Knockullane 462m, Knockullane East Top 408m, Mullaghanish 649m, Mullaghanish North-East Top 586.4m, Mullaghanish Far North-East Top 558.5m
SW: Coomagearlahy: Knockbwee 461m, Cummeenboy 442m, Coomagearlahy 506m, Coomagearlahy West Top 462m, Dereenaculling 303m
W: The Paps: Coolcurtoga 425m, The Paps East 694m, The Paps West 690m
Note: this list of places may include island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
Highest Place: The Paps East 694m
Starting Places (28) in area Derrynasaggart:
Carrigallisy, Clonee, Dromiscane Castle, Fuhiry Wood, Garrane Bridge, Garries Bridge, Glannafreaghaun Lough N, Glannafreaghaun Lough S1, Glannafreaghaun Lough S2, Gortavehy Lough, Grousemount Wind Farm, Inchamore Woods N, Inchamore Woods W, Kippagh Lough, Knocknabro Wood, Knockullane, Liam Hegarty Monument, Loo River Junction, Lough Murtagh, Millstreet, Mullaghanish Transmitter Gate, Old Rail Level Crossing, Paps Walk S, River Roughty, Rossacroo na Loo Forest, Sillahertane Stream, The Mills Inn, Top of CoomSummits & other features in area Derrynasaggart:
Cen: Knocknabro: Knocknabro East Top 530m, Knocknabro NE Top 535m, Knocknabro West Top 592m, Knocknagowan 574m
N: Caherbarnagh: Caherbarnagh 681m, Caherbarnagh East Top 549m, Caherbarnagh NW Top 668m, Claragh Mountain 452m, Curracahill 478m
SE: Mullaghanish: Ballyvouskill 401m, Knockacommeen 426m, Knockullane 462m, Knockullane East Top 408m, Mullaghanish 649m, Mullaghanish North-East Top 586.4m, Mullaghanish Far North-East Top 558.5m
SW: Coomagearlahy: Knockbwee 461m, Cummeenboy 442m, Coomagearlahy 506m, Coomagearlahy West Top 462m, Dereenaculling 303m
W: The Paps: Coolcurtoga 425m, The Paps East 694m, The Paps West 690m
Note: this list of places may include island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
Place Rating ..
on the correct name of this peak would be very welcome., Kerry County in Munster province, in Carn Lists, Coolcurtoga is the 830th highest place in Ireland.
Grid Reference W09784 83326, OS 1:50k mapsheet 79
Place visited by: 19 members, recently by: maoris, Colin Murphy, Pepe, Fergalh, chelman7, Wilderness, Juanita, CaminoPat, ciarraioch, markmjcampion, eamonoc, simoburn, PPruzina, thomas_g, pocarbuile
I visited this place: NO
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Bedrock type: Rhyolitic lavas, (Lough Guitane rhyolites)
Short or GPS IDs, 6 char: Clcrtg, 10 char: Colcurtoga
Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/719/
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Summary
for Coolcurtoga :
Unpleasantly prominent
Summary created by Colin Murphy, simon3, jackill
12 Mar, 2024
LevCross (W08543 82689), room for 1 car.Climb the gate and walk along a track crossing a small stream and another gate.
As you reach the start of the climb cross a muddy track and over a high wire fence.
Start up an unpleasent boggy ridge interspersed with rock edges keeping generally on the high ground.
As you reach the near the summit the ground becomes covered with low grass.
The summit is unmarked and generally flat.
Fine views though due to Coolcurtogas prominence.
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A Carn of Worms
by Pepe
3 Aug 2021
What’s intriguing about Coolcortoga is that when gazed up at from the main Cork-Killarney road it appears to have two trig stones, about 100 metres apart, in the summit area.
Pepé stepped out of his car in Glenflesk and engaged in a bout of head-scratching, wondering where to start from. A helpful local advised him not to go up from there: “Too much heather. Go east the main Cork road from the village for maybe less than a kilometre. There’s a boreen on your left. Park at the roadside and go up from there.”
Sure enough there’s room at the head of that boreen for several cars to park. From there walk the single-track road (complete with a strip of grass in the middle of it) for a few hundred metres to the old narrow concrete bridge over the River Flesk. A hundred metres or so later cross another, smaller, old stone bridge over a stream (possibly the stream mentioned in the summary. Then it’s up through the trees and onto the eastern slopes for an hour of sheer torture. That’s how long it took Pepé to bate his way up through clinging heather, dangerous rocks and lurking ankle-traps of which there are many hiking poles essential for sussing out solidity beneath the heather and long grass.
Up top, the two so-called trigs turn out to be trig-shaped piles of stones. The views are great, but there’s an even more treacherous descent to follow: concentration on full blast and muscles tensed all the way. Pepé was so knackered by it all he abandoned another walk planned for later that day. But, by embarking on this energy-sapping, leg-cramping adventure, he discovered where Purgatory is. And if anyone tells you Purgatory no longer exists, consider this: it does exist but goes under a different name now – Coolcurtoga. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/719/comment/23230/
Pepé stepped out of his car in Glenflesk and engaged in a bout of head-scratching, wondering where to start from. A helpful local advised him not to go up from there: “Too much heather. Go east the main Cork road from the village for maybe less than a kilometre. There’s a boreen on your left. Park at the roadside and go up from there.”
Sure enough there’s room at the head of that boreen for several cars to park. From there walk the single-track road (complete with a strip of grass in the middle of it) for a few hundred metres to the old narrow concrete bridge over the River Flesk. A hundred metres or so later cross another, smaller, old stone bridge over a stream (possibly the stream mentioned in the summary. Then it’s up through the trees and onto the eastern slopes for an hour of sheer torture. That’s how long it took Pepé to bate his way up through clinging heather, dangerous rocks and lurking ankle-traps of which there are many hiking poles essential for sussing out solidity beneath the heather and long grass.
Up top, the two so-called trigs turn out to be trig-shaped piles of stones. The views are great, but there’s an even more treacherous descent to follow: concentration on full blast and muscles tensed all the way. Pepé was so knackered by it all he abandoned another walk planned for later that day. But, by embarking on this energy-sapping, leg-cramping adventure, he discovered where Purgatory is. And if anyone tells you Purgatory no longer exists, consider this: it does exist but goes under a different name now – Coolcurtoga. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/719/comment/23230/
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Don't be put off, it's not that bad
by thomas_g
3 May 2013
Climbed this today, it looks awful from the road, but once you're on the slope it's not that bad. There is the odd ankle twisting hole, but it's fairly easy to navigate the shelves to the top. About 90 mins round trip. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/719/comment/14986/
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