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Figure of eight from Shay Elliott.

Track 4945 simon3 6 days ago
This route starts from the Shay Elliott memorial car park, just north of Drumgoff and visits most of the nearby s... walk, Len: 16.7km, Climb: 616m, Area: Carriglineen Mountain, Wicklow (Ireland)|...

Craig Nyth-y-Gigfran [Y Blaen Llym]: Short trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 2 days ago
Leave the A496 just south west of Blaenau Ffestinog at the village of Tan-Y Grisiau and head up under very narrow road under a railway bridge Parked to the south just below the waterfalls in ...

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Forum: Suggestions simon3 a month ago
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Hawkstone Hill: It would be pure folly not to visit..

Summit Comment Fergalh 2 days ago
Due to an inclement weather forecast for the Wales area .We decided to visit Hawkstone Park follies Park near the eastern Welsh border just north of Shrewsbury which contained a binnion. The ...

Avonmore Way Loop Trail

Track 4938 Colin Murphy a week ago
Did this looped walk on a beautiful, scorching September day. I started the walk at the oddly named Stump of the Castle walk, Len: 14.4km, Climb: 495m, Area: Wicklow (Ireland) ||

Spire of Lloyd: 18th century curiosity.

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: Colin Murphy 3 days ago
An 18th century folly, The Spire of Lloyd is a 30-metre high lighthouse atop a 131m rise. It is located 1.5km west of Kells just off the R163. There is a carpark, after which it is a short wa...

Church Mountain: One of my preferred wicklow summits

Summit Comment Bunsen7 5 days ago
A very straightforward out and back walk via forest tracks from the carpark at Hollywood Glen. It loops around and when the forest roadends at its northern terminus, head eastwards up the tra...

Sicily: Taormina to Isola Bella

Track 4941 Onzy a week ago
walk, Len: 4.1km, Climb: 40m, Area: Unid, Unid () ||

Slievemore: Achill's conical, stand-alone coastal peak with stunning vistas.

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: markmjcampion 6 days ago
Slievemore is a v distinctive, almost conical peak in the N of Achill Island. It's a steep-sided mix of grass and rock with no major difficulties although parts of the sharp ridge overlook pl...

Slieve Snaght: Rugged highpoint on a gnarly, rocky SW-NE ridge

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: markmjcampion 6 days ago
Slieve Snaght, just S of Erigal, is a steep-sided sentinel mountain in an area of interesting but dangerous terrain. Much care is needed esp if parking to the S. Views are stunning including ...

Sicily: Taormina to Castelmola Circuit

Track 4940 Onzy a week ago
walk, Len: 5.0km, Climb: 283m, Area: Unid, Unid () ||

Hungry Hill: Commanding rocky Beara highpoint on N-S ridge with eastern cliffs a

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: markmjcampion 6 days ago
Hungry Hill in the Caha Mts is the highest peak in the Beara peninsula with commanding views of much of W Cork and S Kerry as well as Cape Clear and the Skelligs. It's topped by a boggy plate...
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Brandon Group Area   N: Brandon Ridge North Subarea
Place count in area: 15, OSI/LPS Maps: 70, EW-DC, EW-DW 
Highest place: Brandon, 951.7m
Maximum height for area: 951.7 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 934 metres,

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
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Pierasmore Mountain Piaras Mór A name in Irish (Ir. Piaras Mór [OSI], 'big [obscure element]') Kerry County in Munster Province, in Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam Lists, Rhythmically bedded sandstone Bedrock

Height: 745.7m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 70 Grid Reference: Q46380 13650
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Longitude: -10.250332, Latitude: 52.253569 , Easting: 46380, Northing: 113650 Prominence: 32.8m,  Isolation: 0.2km
ITM: 446363 613703,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Prsmr, 10 char: Pierasmore
Bedrock type: Rhythmically bedded sandstone, (Ballymore Sandstone Formation)

This name is interpreted as 'big Pierce' in the Ordnance Survey Name Book. However, An Seabhac reports that in his time, nearly a century later, nobody in the locality had an explanation for the name but they did not think it was related to the personal name Piaras. There is a lower peak to the N called Piaras Beag. On the saddle between Piaras Mór and Masatiompan is an ogham stone bearing an inscription which translates as: Ronan, the priest son of Camogann. There is a chi-ro monogram (representing 'Christ') above it and a Greek cross in a circle on the other side (Barrington, Discovering Kerry, 180).   Piaras Mór is the 81st highest place in Ireland.
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not as memorable as its neighbours .. by milo   (Show all for Pierasmore (Piaras Mór))
 
MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Pierasmore (<i>Piaras Mór</i>) in area Brandon Group, Ireland
Picture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJchmjQ6JhA		  
A Critchley and Schwartz Film
by CaptainVertigo  25 Apr 2015
The still taken from the Schwartz/Critchley YouTube film "Trekking and Wild Camping in the Brandon Massif, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland" shows the fearless pair coming from Masatiompan and heading towards Pierasmore with the Brandon ridge, partly hidden in cloud, in the background. This film will give any of you planning an outing in that area an idea of what's involved. Its just such a beautiful place, and the film manages to capture that.
Pierasmore is a proper oddity. It's something of a medieval castle on the route to Brandon, in many ways no more than a rocky outcrop, but as with all the paraphernalia of the ridge, not to be missed. I will be watching this film again and again, and almost certainly will do so on misty evenings in our rented vacation cottage on Faha just below where the drama of the film unfolded. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/77/comment/17950/
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Distinctive Summit .. by Bunsen7   (Show all for Pierasmore (Piaras Mór))
 
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