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Feature count in area: 27, all in Antrim,
OSI/LPS Maps: 14, 15, 4, 5, 8, 9
Highest Place: Trostan 550m
Starting Places (3) in area Antrim Hills: Donalds Carn, Rathlin Island Ferry Port, Whitehead Golf Club
Summits & other features in area Antrim Hills: Cen: Central Antrim Hills: Carncormick 436m, Collin Top 429m, Crockalough 402m, Mid Hill 440m, Skerry Hill 459m, Slieveanorra 508m, Slievenahanaghan 418m, Soarns Hill 403m, Tievebulliagh 402m, Trostan 550m Central Antrim Hills: Slievenanee 543m N: North Antrim Hills: Carnanmore 379m, Croaghan 417m, Crockaneel 403m, Cross Slieve 206m, Knocklayd 514m, Lannimore Hill 207m N: Rathlin Island: Kilpatrick (Rathlin Island) 134m S: Islandmagee: Donalds Carn 141m, Muldersleigh Hill 131m S: South Antrim Hills: Agnew's Hill 474m, Big Collin 353m, Black Hill 381m, Carnearny 319m, Douglas Top 402m, Slemish 437.9m W: West Antrim: Long Mountain 215m
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islands as such.
Douglas Top, 402mHill Cnoc na Dúghlaise A name in Irish,
Place Rating ..
, Antrim County in Ulster province, in Carn Lists, Douglas Top is the 937th highest place in Ireland.
Grid Reference D24491 02918,
OS 1:50k mapsheet 9 Place visited by: 44members, recently by: conormcbandon, garybuz, Paddym99, Colin Murphy, annem, Carolyn105, Kilcoobin, Andy1287, Kirsty, MichaelG55, LorraineG60, eamonoc, Fergalh, Wilderness, Ulsterpooka
I visited this place: NO (You need to be a logged-in member for this.)
Longitude: -6.062175, Latitude: 54.858585, Easting: 324491, Northing: 402918,
Prominence: 87m, Isolation: 3.4km ITM: 724414 902915 Bedrock type: Olivine basalt lava, (Upper Basalt Formation) Notes on name: Douglas is a townland in the parish of Glenwhirry.
Short or GPS IDs, 6 char: DglsTp, 10 char: DglsTop Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/818/
Gallery for Douglas Top (Cnoc na Dúghlaise) and surrounds
Summary
for Douglas Top (Cnoc na Dúghlaise):
Simple, rather bleak little top
Summary created by Colin Murphy
28 Nov, 2022
There is parking for a single car at A (D25309 03212). Walk about 15m south back along the road and you will see a very basic style and a sign advising walkers to follow the white poles. Follow the trail (barely discernible much of the time) WWS for 1km, keeping a fence on your left. The slope is gentle but boggy. The high point indicated on my GPS and map was 200m short of a distinct higher spot across a fence to the west, although this last 200m is horribly boggy in winter. Up and down in 45 min.
Douglas Top is one of Antrim's most underrated hilIs. The climb is very easy but on a clear day like today the views are magnificent. I parked in a little lay-by where the Antrim Hills way crosses the Shilnavogy road (B (D253 032)). It's just a short climb (less than 30 vertical metres) from here over slightly boggy moorland to the summit area. Take your pick as to where the actual 402m summit is as the whole area is very flat with no obvious mark such as a cairn. And so to those views: Slemish of course dominates the view northwards but if conditions are clear, much of the Antrim plateau is visible - from Trostan, Slievenanee, Carncormick and Mid Hill to the north, the Scottish isles and North Channel to the north-east, Glenarm and Agnew's Hill to the east, south to Divis and Big Collin then westwards to the Sperrins. An easy but rewarding climb which can be done in less than 30 minutes. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/818/comment/3739/
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pdtempan on Douglas Top
by pdtempan
2 Jun 2008
The best thing about Douglas Top is definitely the view, so it is not too hard to see why it has remained uncommented until now. We combined this summit with a Sunday bike ride from Ballymena to Larne, which also took in Slemish. A good alternative would be to include it in a walk along the Antrim Hills Way, although the waymarked trail stops about 500m short of the summit. After leaving Slemish, we passed the Swine Craes, traditionally the scene of St. Patrick's captivity as a boy shepherd. We then had a long, hard climb by bike to the pass at Shillanavogy, where the road crosses the watershed from the Braid Valley to Glenwhirry. Leaving our bikes at the pass, we had just 1 km to walk to Douglas Top, and just 20 m of ascent. The Antrim Hills Way briefly leads west towards Douglas Top, before veering away to the north. A couple of fences have to be negotiated to reach the 402m spot height. Slemish dominates the view, but Lough Neagh, Slieve Gallion and the Sperrins were also visible. We visited another knoll to the SW which also just breaks the 400m contour and found that this opens up a view to the south, which includes the Belfast Hills, the Mournes and Slieve Gullion. Nearer at hand is Glenwhirry and the wind-farm at Elliot's Hill. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/818/comment/3136/
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Good views from so-so top.
by Colin Murphy
22 Nov 2023
Douglas Top doesn't have too many redeeming features, unless you count the ease with which it is bagged, but among them is the fine view to the north west of Slemish, standing in splendid isolation. As I viewed it on a grey day, there was a momentary break in the clouds and one side of it was suddenly lit up, beautifully illuminating what is probably Antrim's finest mountain. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/818/comment/23766/
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