Park your car at the forest entrance R87571 52878 A, room for 5 cars. Walk west along a forest track which narrows and enters more dense forest as it turns sharply south at approx. R85453 52650 B. The trig pillar is over a low wire fence in a field next to the telcoms mast on the forest edge.
This track seems popular with runners as no less than 3 set off at the same time as me.
Since jackill's entry, a new track has been cut up through the forest. Starting at point A, continue on the track as far as R86660 52564 C. The first part involves barely an ascent of 5m over 1km. Turn south here up a rough, steep track, gaining about 70m in height over 500m distance, to R86676 52205 D where there is a crossroads of sorts. Turn right here (west) and continue along this track all the way to the mast, which is next to a grassy field that holds the trig. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/746/comment/5505/

This is a nice little hill with good tracks most of the way to the summit, which is marked with a trig pillar. I always think it's nice to reach the top and find it marked in some way, either by a trig or cairn. Anyway, I was also fortunate to do this on a crisp, blue sky winter's day, which transformed otherwise ordinary fields of growth into things of beauty. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/746/comment/23771/

Through one thing and another I haven't climbed a new hill or entered a new comment on Mountainviews in several months.After the passing of a dear friend and relative, last Saturday I finally decided to have a go at the final five hills on my local 100 list which was made up of some modest tops in the Shannon region.

The first of the hills to fall was Gortnageragh, an easy walk on a forest track to the summit.
The trig pillar is in a grassy field as you emerge from the forest with a telephone mast nearby.
It was a hazy day but I was happy to capture an image of "Jacobs Ladder".
Crepuscular rays, to give them their proper name, ( also known as God Rays), are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from a single point in the sky.
These rays, which stream through gaps in cloud cover, are columns of sunlit air separated by darker cloud-shadowed areas. The name comes from their frequent occurrences during crepuscular hours (those around dawn and dusk), when the contrasts between light and dark are the greatest.
Crepuscular comes from the Latin word crepusculum meaning twilight and though it wasn't twilight the overcast day had that feel to it.

Yeats' poem "Into the Twilight" is probably too sentimental and too forlorn
for many but seems to strike the right chord.

"Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:
For there the mystical brotherhood
Of sun and moon and hollow and wood
And river and stream work out their will;

And God stands winding His lonely horn,
And time and the world are ever in flight;
And love is less kind than the grey twilight,
And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn" Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/746/comment/6643/