Blackstairs Mountain, An Charraig Dhubh, Sturra 732.1m mountain, Blackstairs Mountains S: Blackstairs South Ireland at MountainViews.ie

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Blackstairs Mountain 732.1m, Carrigalachan 463m, Slievebaun 441.8m,

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Blackstairs Mountains Area S: Blackstairs South Subarea

Place count in area: 13, OSI/LPS Maps: 68, EW-B, EW-B
Highest place:

Mount Leinster, 794.4m
Maximum height for area: 794.4 metres, Maximum prominence for area: 706.4 metres,

Places in area Blackstairs Mountains:
N: Blackstairs North:

Black Rock Mountain 599.6m

Mount Leinster 794.4m

Mount Leinster East Top 656.5m

Slievebawn 524.8m
S: Blackstairs South:

Blackstairs Mountain 732.1m

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.

Blackstairs Mountain Mountain An Charraig Dhubh A name in Irish, also Sturra, also Stuadh Leithghlinn an extra EastWest name in Irish Ir. An Charraig Dhubh [logainm.ie], 'the black rock' Carlow/ Wexford County in Leinster Province, in Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam, Irish Highest Hundred Lists, Dark grey semi-pelitic, psammitic schist Bedrock

Height: 732.1m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 68 Grid Reference: S81059 44833
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Longitude: -6.805818, Latitude: 52.549212 , Easting: 281059, Northing: 144833 Prominence: 540m, Isolation: 1.9km
ITM: 680990 644879, GPS IDs, 6 char: BlckMn, 10 char: BlckstMntn
Bedrock type: Dark grey semi-pelitic, psammitic schist, (Ballybeg Member)

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.
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Is there an East Top?

by jackill 14 Nov 2016

It was recently suggested by MViews member Pepe that there could be an addition to our carn list.
A recent survey gives it a prominence of 20.027 meters falling short of the required 30 meters.
For those interested the grid reference is S824 467 star

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