Seefin, Suí Finn 424m hill, Nagles Mountains NW: Knocknaskagh Ireland at MountainViews.ie

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Nagles Mountains Area NW: Knocknaskagh Subarea

Place count in area: 9, OSI/LPS Maps: 80, 81
Highest place:

Knocknaskagh, 426.5m
Maximum height for area: 426.5 metres, Maximum prominence for area: 293 metres,

Places in area Nagles Mountains:
E: Tallow:

Knockroe 177m
N: Fermoy Hills:

Ballydorgan 177m

Corrin 220m
NW: Knocknaskagh:

Corran 407.5m

Knocknaskagh 426.5m

Knocknaskagh North Top 406.3m

Seefin 424m
S: Dungourney:

Garrylaurence Hill 236m

Knockakeo 238m

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.

Seefin Hill Suí Finn A name in Irish (prob. Ir. Suí Finn [PDT], 'Fionn's seat') Cork County in Munster Province, in Carn List, Purple mudstone and sandstone Bedrock

Height: 424m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 80 Grid Reference: W67894 94284
Place visited by 61 members. Recently by: Padraigin, bandre, niallellis, DeirdreM, Superterence, Petecal423, Kirsty, Leatra, JustMe, dregish, Colin Murphy, TippHiker, MisterMoe, ShayGlynn, ConMack23
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Longitude: -8.469247, Latitude: 52.100026 , Easting: 167894, Northing: 94284 Prominence: 40m, Isolation: 2.6km
ITM: 567850 594339, GPS IDs, 6 char: See424, 10 char: Seefin 424
Bedrock type: Purple mudstone and sandstone, (Ballytrasna Formation)

The monument at the summit is known as Leacht. See Máire MacNeill, 'The Festival of Lughnasa' (pp. 213-14) for details of the festive assembly (known as 'going up to Leacht') which took place on Seefin in mid-July. Seefin is the second highest hill in the Nagles Mountains area and the 834th highest in Ireland. Seefin is the second most westerly summit in the Nagles Mountains area.
Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/721/

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Another diversion , another summit.

Short Summary created by jackill 22 Oct 2010

Park at the Castleblagh forestry entrance W 70804 94284 star

A , room for 5 cars.Walk up the track and turn left onto the gently rising rocky track at junction W70974 94853 star

B . Follow this track(marked accurately on OSI 1:50000 map ) to the summit of Knocknaskagh.Follow a rough track on past this summit , the track gradually becomes a good forest road as you enter woodland. Turn off the main forestry road at W68227 94566 star

C up a narrow but passable track then right along an a ride through pine forest.The summit is marked by a large stone cairn.
Coming down from the summit heading west turn north at W67715 94363 star

D to get back on the main forestry track. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/721/comment/5480/

Listen out!! .. by hivisibility (Show all for Seefin (Suí Finn))

Always good to mark the top of a hill well. .. by chelman7 (Show all for Seefin (Suí Finn))

After Knocknaskagh we approached Seefin by turnin .. by jackill (Show all for Seefin (Suí Finn))

Good forest tracks to Wizards Hat .. by eamonoc (Show all for Seefin (Suí Finn))

(End of comment section for Seefin (Suí Finn).)

Main mapping: Open Street Map (Main supplier OpenTopoMap)	Height layer: © MapTiler	British summit data courtesy: Database of British & Irish Hills (Creative Commons Licence)
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