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Antrim Hills Area   Cen: Central Antrim Hills Subarea
Place count in area: 27, OSI/LPS Maps: 14, 15, 4, 5, 8, 9 
Highest place:
Trostan, 550m
Maximum height for area: 550 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 515 metres,

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Soarns Hill Hill Sliabh Bán A name in Irish, also Slievebane an extra name in English (Ir. Sliabh Bán [OSI], 'white or fallow mountain') Antrim County in NI and in Ulster Province, in Carn List, Olivine basalt lava Bedrock

Height: 403m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 9 Grid Reference: D21085 14081
Place visited by 32 members. Recently by: Colin Murphy, Paddym99, garybuz, Andy1287, Kilcoobin, eamonoc, Fergalh, Xiom5724, LorraineG60, MichaelG55, Ulsterpooka, trostanite, Wilderness, whoRya, Peter Walker
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Longitude: -6.110526, Latitude: 54.959558 , Easting: 321085, Northing: 414081 Prominence: 38m,  Isolation: 1.8km
ITM: 721007 914066,   GPS IDs, 6 char: SrnsHl, 10 char: Soarns Hil
Bedrock type: Olivine basalt lava, (Upper Basalt Formation)

The Irish name, Sliabh Bán, is fairly transparent. However, the origin of the English name, Soarns Hill, is obscure. It may be derived from Ir. sorn, 'kiln', but the hill seems rather too high and remote for this. There were limekilns near the coast at Carnlough.   Soarns Hill is the 927th highest place in Ireland.

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Soarns Hill (<i>Sliabh Bán</i>) in area Antrim Hills, Ireland
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Long, tough tramp through high heather & grass
Short Summary created by Colin Murphy  14 Sep 2023
One approach is via Mid Hill - starting from the Cargan Dam car park at D19239 17217 starA. Cross the dam and turn left, crossing two stiles and following a narrow trail along the south side of the reservoir, crossing over a small bridge to roughly D19759 17078 starB, where you can strike out in a southerly direction towards the summit. The climbing is gentle (roughly 150m over 1.5km) but the terrain is very rough and covered in long reeds, knee-high heather and equally long grass almost the whole way. From Mid Hill, continue SE over shortish grass, boggy in places, along the edge of the forest to D20686 14632 starC, and proceed SE up a fire break to D21264 14439 starD. Turn SW up another fire break for about 500m to unmarked high point. Return via same route. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/810/comment/5569/
 
Forested summit .. by slemish   (Show all for Soarns Hill (Sliabh Bán))
 
Firebreak Bliss .. by eamonoc   (Show all for Soarns Hill (Sliabh Bán))
 
Local summit visit .. by Harry Goodman   (Show all for Soarns Hill (Sliabh Bán))
 
Soarns Hill, a hill for bad weather. With a fore .. by three5four0   (Show all for Soarns Hill (Sliabh Bán))
 
Maybe, a not so hidden Central Antrim Gem of a hi .. by eamonoc   (Show all for Soarns Hill (Sliabh Bán))
 
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