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Place count in area: 13, OSI/LPS Maps: 68
Highest place: Mount Leinster, 794.4m Maximum height for area: 794.4 metres, Maximum prominence for area: 706.4 metres,
Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
Blackstairs MountainMountainAn Charraig Dhubh A name in IrishIr. An Charraig Dhubh [logainm.ie], 'the black rock'Carlow/ WexfordCounty in Leinster Province, in Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam, Irish Highest Hundred Lists, Dark grey semi-pelitic, psammitic schist Bedrock
Height:732.1mOS 1:50k Mapsheet: 68Grid Reference: S81059 44833 Place visited by 332 members. Recently by: stuartdonaldson, Chance, Benbruce, No1Grumbler, djacobs, adam.mann, tmcg, derekpkearney, andodenis, deirdrec, Bissboy, therealcrow, ShaneMaher, Jay9, fellrunner I have visited this place: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.)
Caher Roe's Den is a cave on the SW ridge of this peak. A jutting pinnacle at this place is called Sthurra [MacNeill, 225]. Caher Roe's Den is named after Cathaoir na gCapall of the O’Dempsey family from Laois. After he was dispossessed, he turned rapparee and stole horses. He was hanged at Maryborough (Port Laoise) in August 1735. The Den is reputed to hold his treasure. However, Máire MacNeill remarks: We doubt if Cathaoir na gCapall ever had to take refuge there. The cave-dwelling abductor, the owner of treasure in the bowels of the mountain, was not, we are sure, the eighteenth century raparee, but an ancient deity, possibly the remote divine ancestor of the Leinstermen, Cathair Már. Local people used to climb to Caher Roe's Den on Mountain Sunday, the last Sunday of July [MacNeill, 225-27].
Blackstairs Mountain is the second highest mountain in the Blackstairs Mountains area and the 88th highest in Ireland. Blackstairs Mountain is the second highest point in county Carlow and also the second highest in Wexford. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/85/