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Feature count in area: 44, by county: Tipperary: 36, Limerick: 8,
OSI/LPS Maps: 52, 53, 54, 58, 59, 60, 65, 66
Highest Place: Keeper Hill 691.6m
Starting Places (31) in area Midlands SW: Ballincurra Hill South, Ballyhourigan Wood Loop Walk, Barnane Lodge, Castlewaller Wood Forest Road, Coillte Knockanroe, Commanealine Wood, Commaun Beg North, Cullaun South, Cummer South, Curreeny Wood, Doonane Forest Carpark, Foildhine Mulkeir Rivers, Glenaneagh Park, Glenstal Wood CP, Gortagarry Hill West, Greenan Cross, Knockadigeen Hill SW, Knockanora East, Knockanully, Knockaviltoge East, Knockfune Wood Bend, Knockmaroe Wood, Knockmehill South, Knockteige SW, Nicker, Raven's Rock, Ring Hill West, River Doonane, The Lookout, Tobernagreana, Upperchurch
Summits & other features in area Midlands SW: Cen: Mauherslieve: Cummer 405m, Foilduff 400m, Knockmaroe 411m, Mauherslieve 543m E: Upperchurch Hills: Knockalough 427m, Knockaviltoge 364m N: Knockshigowna: Knockshigowna 212m NE: Devilsbit: Benduff 455m, Black Hill 228m, Devilsbit Mountain 480m, Gortagarry 458m, Kilduff Mountain 445m, Knockanora 433m NE: Templederry: Ballincurra Hill 403m, Commaun Beg 403m, Cooneen Hill 467m, Coumsallahaun 320m, Knockadigeen Hill 402m NW: Arra Mountains: Corbally Hill 339m, Tountinna 457m NW: Silvermine Mountains: Silvermine Mountains East Top 479m, Silvermine Mountains Far East Top 410m, Silvermine Mountains West Top 489m SE: Hollyford Hills: Falleennafinoga 388m, Foildarg 440m, Glenaneagh 420m, Gortnageragh 418m, Knockastanna 444m, Knockbane 433m, Lackenacreena 413m, Ring Hill 426m, Tooreen 457m SW: Slieve Felim: Cullaun 460m, Derk Hill 236m, Knockroe 204m, Knockseefin 235m, Slieve Felim 427m, Slieve Felim East Top 423m, Slieve Felim South Top 407m W: Keeper Hill: Bleanbeg 368m, Boolatin Top 446.6m, Keeper Hill 691.6m, Knockane 411m, Knockfune 452m
Note: this list of places may include island features such as summits, but not
islands as such.
Glenaneagh, 420mHill Gleann Achaidh A name in Irish,
Place Rating ..
poss. Ir. Gleann Achaidh [logainm.ie‡], Tipperary County in Munster province, in Carn Lists, Glenaneagh is the 851st highest place in Ireland.
Grid Reference R95575 54918,
OS 1:50k mapsheet 66 Place visited by: 35members, recently by: Moirabourke, Arcticaurora, chelman7, Krzysztof_K, johncusack, CusackCharlie, garrettd, JohnRea, sarahryanowen, LiamG1951, maryblewitt, Colin Murphy, John.geary, FrankMc1964, Wildrover
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Longitude: -8.066132, Latitude: 52.645859, Easting: 195575, Northing: 154918,
Prominence: 63m, Isolation: 1.3km ITM: 595524 654963 Bedrock type: Greywacke, siltstone & grit, (Hollyford Formation) Notes on name: It is noteworthy that this peak is located partially in the townland of Glenough Upper (Ir. Gleann Achaidh Uachtarach). It seems too big a coincidence that the names are so similar. They are more likely to be variant forms of a single name, but this is not certain. Any further information on the correct name of this peak would be very welcome.
Short or GPS IDs, 6 char: Glnngh, 10 char: Glenaneagh Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/736/
Gallery for Glenaneagh (Gleann Achaidh) and surrounds
Summary
for Glenaneagh (Gleann Achaidh):
All farmland and wind turbines!
Summary created by paddyhillsbagger, jackill
06 Jun, 2012
Picture: Glenaneagh top, turbine and Knockalough
Park at a small field entrance at A (R94525 53427) on the narrow roadside where there was room for only one car.Walk back up the road towards Hollyford and cross the first gate to your right.
Be aware this is farmland so access may not always be possible so if you can ask the farmer.
Follow the fence/ditch on the left, initially next to a tree lined stream, crossing two fences and a farm track to the summit of Lackeenacreena which is marked by a few stones next to a wire fence.
Cross the wire fence onto a forestry edge track, follow this downhill, when it turns sharply right do not follow rather cross the fence in front to you and continue on across farmland.
Cross a tree lined ditch and then gently uphill to the summit area and its windmill.
Starting at B (R955 542) you can follow the rough track up from the abandoned house. This leads onto the roadway for the Glenough Windfarm which provide easy access to Lackacrenna, Glenaneagh and Ring Hill. This track is departed for short off-road trips of 5 minutes duration to reach the actual summits.
Picture: From the summit of Glenaneagh looking west to Lackenacreena with Foildarg and Gortnageragh
jackill on Glenaneagh
by jackill
3 Feb 2009
From Lackenacreena I trotted on through pastures to reach the summit of Glenaneagh.
A bootful of water is a small price to pay for the variety of Reeds ,cuckoo flowers, bracken and moss that clog every step on this high boggy ridge. Below in the dark glens old houses long abandoned are kept company by century old trees planted by careful hands as shelter from the winter winds.On the ridge near the summit a wind speed survey mast newly erected in shining galvanise is in sharp contrast Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/736/comment/3564/
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Picture: The H.G. Wells Martian-like turbine atop Glenaneagh
It's an ill wind...
by Colin Murphy
28 Jan 2022
As I ate my egg sandwich near the summit area, I amused myself by counting the wind turbines visible to the naked eye from Glenaneagh. I got to 42, but I may have missed some. I know they're sort of a good thing, but they have their downside in the way they blight the scenery. Put them all at sea! Roll on nuclear fusion! Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/736/comment/23396/
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Peak bagging on a bike no.2
by peter1
24 Aug 2014
These three hills are now the centre of a wind farm and the views have changed quite a lot from the photos in the comments. However, this also means that the access roads that link the turbines are perfect for a mountain bike! I parked the car at C (R95757 55907) and followed the road uphill into the wind farm. I climbed Glenaneagh first, then on to Ring Hill and finally Lackenacreena, returning by the same route.
The tops were easy to get to...however, in the case of both Glenaneagh and Ring Hill, the access roads seem to be cut straight through the highest points...I don't know if there were trig points on these two tops before the wind farm, but there are none now.
Incidently, I made a track on my smartphone and tried to upload it but the track details seem to break down into 3 seperate tracks, walking, running and vehicle!
Total time and distance, one hour and twenty minutes, 9.4km. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/736/comment/17642/
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Picture: A mercifully turbine-free view to the NW
The turbines have invaded!
by Colin Murphy
28 Jan 2022
A forest track begins at RingHill (R957 541), just before a sharp bend in road, where there is parking for a few cars. Proceed up the track to D (R959 543) where the track curves to the left and appears to peter out. Continue along to the left however, because it swings right again up towards the forestry, albeit in a deteriorating fashion, but it is still quite passable. It continues almost up to the tree line, where you cross a short strip of grass and continue up through the mature wood, which is easy going. This will eventually deposit you at a barbed wire fence, beyond which is a grassy strip and a grassy area. Cross these to take you on to the substantial wind farm track, turn left and follow the track as it curves around the trees for about 300m until you see the turbine on your right. Duck under a single wire (possibly electrified) fence, but easily passable, and proceed up the grassy slope to the left of the turbine. The high point - in the middle of an area of short grass - is marked by a small pile of stones. From here it is easy to take in Ring Hill. While the scenery is pleasant, the entire landscape seems to have been invaded by turbines on every hill in every direction. Car to car for both tops took me just under 2 hours. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/736/comment/23395/
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