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You can pretty much head in a direct line from the top of Knockrower to Shaking Rock, just detouring slightly to avoid the occasional small cliff. The re-ascent up just makes the Mountain Views criteria - 31m by my GPS.

The summit is flat and boggy. Hard to determine the exact high point, there are 2 or 3 candidates. I wonder is the boulder in the picture the rock that shakes? It was fairly stationary when I as there. To descend and return to Galway's Bridge I took the route 'Kenmare Uplands' as described by Kevin Corcoran in his book 'Kerry Walks'. This takes you past the Poulagower falls and follows the Galway's river back to the Kerry Way and the Old Kenmare Road.
Kevin describes this part of the route as "difficult and extremely demanding, and if the river is in flood it can be tortuous!" It had been exceptionally dry when I did it, and it was bad enough. If you're looking for Wilderness, remoteness and isolation this will be right up your street. I doubt even Simon's magic phone would get a signal here. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/822/comment/3857/

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Conor74 on Shaking Rock

Would add one other point to the above. Even if not walking from the top of Knockrower, stick as near as possible to the base, there is a road (really a track that can be difficult to make out) depicted on the area map which passes Cummenslaun Lake and A (V925 774), goes north skirting the bottom of Knockrower before turning north east at B (V929 787) through the saddle between that mountain and Shaking Rock. If one strays from this, the going can be tough. The area to the west, being east of the Old Killarney Road, is covered in ferns that can be up to 6 feet high, acres and acres of grass that is ungrazed and also up to waist height, with enopugh rocks and tufts to test the ankles, areas that are conserved woodlands and so fenced off with high deer proof fence, and is just a very slow and difficult walk. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/822/comment/3891/

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