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Mount Gable 417.8m,
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Partry & Joyce Area   SE: Cornamona Subarea
Place count in area: 27, OSI/LPS Maps: 37, 38, CBE, EW-CON, MSW 
Highest place:
Maumtrasna, 682m
Maximum height for area: 682 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 607 metres,

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Mount Gable Hill Binn Shleibhe A name in Irish, also Benlevy an extra name in English (Ir. Binn Shleibhe [OSI], 'peak of the mountain/moorland'). It is
often known as Mount Gable locally.
Galway County in Connacht Province, in Carn List, Schists, grits, metavolcanics, mylonitic Bedrock

Height: 417.8m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 38 Grid Reference: M05017 54904
Place visited by 85 members. Recently by: jkforde, elizauna, abcd, osullivanm, simon3, pdtempan, Tomaslj, Haulie, Ghreallaigh, TommyMc, GoldCircle, mrmikelennon, peterturner, obrien116, TommyV
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Longitude: -9.433285, Latitude: 53.53568 , Easting: 105018, Northing: 254905 Prominence: 352m,  Isolation: 4.5km,   Has trig pillar
ITM: 504988 754926,   GPS IDs, 6 char: MntGbl, 10 char: MntGbl
Bedrock type: Schists, grits, metavolcanics, mylonitic, (Ben Levy Grit Formation)

Benlevy dominates the narrow neck of land between Lough Mask and Lough Corrib, on which Clonbur and Cong are situated. Walks: for a route to the summit from the SE, see Whilde & Simms, New Irish Walk Guide - West and North, 58-59.   Binn Shleibhe is the 862nd highest place in Ireland. Binn Shleibhe is the second most southerly summit and also the second most easterly in the Partry & Joyce area.

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childs play .. by TadghKennedy   (Show all for Mount Gable (Binn Shleibhe))
 
MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Mount Gable (<i>Binn Shleibhe</i>) in area Partry & Joyce, Ireland
Picture: Looking down on Lough Corrib
 
Perfectly located between two lakes.
by TommyV  25 Aug 2020
Just to re-enforce the comments here already, the views over Lough Corrib and Lough Mask are amazing for not a huge amount of effort. We started out at the small car park mentioned by paddyhillsbagger. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/758/comment/20844/
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Great views of nearby Lough Coolin. .. by simon3   (Show all for Mount Gable (Binn Shleibhe))
 
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