Eskaheen Mountain 418m hill, Inishowen Iskaheen Ireland at MountainViews.ie

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

Legend

Zoom: ??

For more map options click on any overview map area or any detail map feature.

Detail Map Features

Showing 2 items:
Eskaheen Mountain 418m,

Tracks:

2368, 7km

Find Suggested Walks

Find hill, mountain, island, coastal feature.

Videos

Recent Contributions

Get Notifications

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 or shared GPS tracks 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.

RSS Feed for Recent Items.
MV Facebook page.

Visit our Facebook page.

Video display

Inishowen Area Iskaheen Subarea

Place count in area: 27, OSI/LPS Maps: 2, 3, 4, 6, 7
Highest place:

Slieve Snaght, 615m
Maximum height for area: 615 metres, Maximum prominence for area: 600 metres,

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

Eskaheen Mountain Hill Sliabh Uisce Chaoin A name in Irish
poss. Ir. ‡Sliabh Uisce Chaoin [PDT], 'mountain of Uisce Chaoin or
fair water’ Donegal County in Ulster Province, in Carn List, Pale grey grit with psammitic schist Bedrock

Height: 418m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 7 Grid Reference: C44086 28669
Place visited by 24 members. Recently by: Fergalh, madfrankie, sperrinlad, Apple, sandman, muschi, chalky, Docrallying, cody1, Lucky1, jmcg, mark-rdc, AntrimRambler, Garmin, Harry Goodman
I have visited this place: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.)

Longitude: -7.310131, Latitude: 55.103319 , Easting: 244086, Northing: 428669 Prominence: 144m, Isolation: 3.8km
ITM: 644025 928651, GPS IDs, 6 char: EskhMn, 10 char: EskhnMntn
Bedrock type: Pale grey grit with psammitic schist, (Fahan Grit Formation)

Eskaheen is a townland in the parish of Muff. It is said that Eoghan died of grief for his brother, Conall Gulban, and was buried here. According to Colgan it received its named from a fine spring where anciently existed a monastery [INP i, 446]. Eskaheen Mountain is the 856th highest place in Ireland.
Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/744/

COMMENTS for Eskaheen Mountain of 1

Follow this place's comments

		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. 2100 Summiteers, 1300 Contributors, Monthly Newsletter since 2007