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Dartry Mountains Area   SW: Castlegal Hills Subarea
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Leean Mountain Hill Leitrim County in Connacht Province, in Carn List, Mudbank limestone Bedrock

Height: 417m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 16 Grid Reference: G80578 38818
Place visited by 50 members. Recently by: Geo, markwallace, Colin Murphy, jlk, jimmytherabbit, Loman01, melohara, marymac, magnumpig, FrankMc1964, eamonoc, Wilderness, conormcbandon, Jamessheerin, juliewoods
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Longitude: -8.299071, Latitude: 54.29778 , Easting: 180578, Northing: 338818 Prominence: 132m,  Isolation: 2km,   Has trig pillar
ITM: 580531 838820,   GPS IDs, 6 char: LnMntn, 10 char: LnMntn
Bedrock type: Mudbank limestone, (Dartry Limestone Formation)

For information on the archaeology of this area, which includes hut sites and rocking stones, see the article The Leean Mountain area of County Leitrim: a prehistoric landscape revealed by Stephen Clarke and Tatjana Kytmannow in Archaeology Ireland No. 68 (Summer 2004), 36-39.   Leean Mountain is the 866th highest place in Ireland.

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Ancient sites, interesting views. .. by group   (Show all for Leean Mountain )
 
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Picture: Trig on limestone
 
New Comment: Ireland's Best Small Hill?
by Geo  Sat 12 Apr
The title of this comment says it all about my experience.
I won't labour the practicalities of how to get to it, it's well laid out by others, and straightforward to follow.
Getting back to the question posed, this hill was so ahead of any expectations. I have had many visits to the area, in fact, it's where I cut my metaphorical hillwalking teeth as a student 30+ years ago in Sligo. I hadn't been on this particular one, and as the weather has been glorious the last weeks, and I wanted to get out, I drove up after work on a Friday knowing the evenings were long enough. I brought my camping paraphernalia and boy was I glad I did!
I followed the little green lane up through flocks of ewes with their new lambs, as i sweated in the heat of the first warm spell of 2025. There was lots of bared limestone, green grass, stunted hawthorns and little knolls and vales about me, while further afield I could see Lough Gill, Sligo town, the mast on Truskmore, and assorted hills and mountains many of which I've been on before.
The trig when I reached it had a little poo sat upon it, likey from a bird of probably larger dimensions, perhaps a buzzard, and my imagination saw said bird as it circled this place.
I found a little green lawn, tent sized among the limestone, pitched up, and had my supper watching the sun slide down over Keelogyboy, while behind me, an almost full moon rose over the trig.
The whole scene, the fantastic light, the change from day to night, the glorious views around about put me in a philosophical frame of mind, and I felt like it was a moment which will live in memory for me evermore.
The following morning, although cold and breezy was no less beautiful, and the return walk to my car no less thoughtful, as I felt grateful to Providence for what was one of the most spiritual visits to a hill I've ever had.
I hope those who follow my footsteps are similarly overwhelmed. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/750/comment/24415/
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a walk from Lough Doon .. by gerrym   (Show all for Leean Mountain )
 
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