Tully Mountain, Cnoc Leitreach 356m hill, West Connemara N: Tully Ireland at MountainViews.ie

Longitude: -10.004897, Latitude: 53.583789 , Easting: 67272, Northing: 261173 Prominence: 331m, Isolation: 3.4km, Has trig pillar
ITM: 467251 761193, GPS IDs, 6 char: TlyMnt, 10 char: TlyMntn
Bedrock type: Pale quartzites, grits, graphitic top, (Bennabeola Quartzite Formation)

Tully Mountain is sufficiently detached from the Twelve Bens to offer fine views of the range as a whole, as well as coastal views including Inishbofin, Inishturk, Clare Island and Achill. Also known as Letter Hill [TR]. Walks: a route for this peak is described in New Irish Walk Guides by Tony Whilde and Patrick Simms, p. 44. Tully Mountain is the highest hill in the West Connemara area and the 1046th highest in Ireland. Tully Mountain is the most northerly summit in the West Connemara area and also the most easterly.
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Tully Ho!

by Geo 10 Jun 2010

Went up this delightful little hill this morning solo, as the better half went to do Diamond Hill (again!) after we did it yesterday. Now that's a compliment to a hill if I ever saw one. Anyway, cutting a long story short I started at the Quayside mentioned by scapania. Then I followed the road westwards and after the quarry entrance watched to my right to find the stile he mentions. Not seeing it I ploughed upwards to a fence a little off the road and walked along the fence to the stile. Crossing this I realised the bracken ran out a little furter along and also saw a couple more stiles at intervals, so it appears this is a hill with no access issues indeed. Anyway the rest of the story is rather mundane, it's really just a matter of going upwards along the ridge until you can go upwards no more, and you have reached the trig point. Time up: 50 minutes and return 35 minutes. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/893/comment/5866/

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Picture: Tully Mountain, its head in low cloud.

In the clouds.

by FilHil 8 Apr 2012

On 28.02.2012 most of Connemara was under a thick blanket of fog and low cloud, however, Tully Mountain looked just possible. Even so I had to wait till early afternoon for clouds to lift. I parked at the foot of an old quarry (room for 1 car on a slope) about 300m past the small quay which was rather busy with all kinds of maintenance activities.

A short but steep stony track leads to a disused quarry where you will also find a large farm outbuilding, a good reference point for the descent. Proceed through a muddy section where livestock gather (a makeshift trough) and go through a metal gate, which was not locked.

There is no path to the top, just make your own way over the grassy if boggy slope. Livestock is grazing freely so expect some tracks and muddy patches where they gather. Visibility was none too great on the day so I kept to some boulders on the contour to my west, then over a false top and boggy patches to a rocky outcrop where you’ll find a large cairn obscuring the trig.

Tully Mountain still had its head in the cloud so I only got a glimpse of Ballynakill Harbour and the Bens. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/893/comment/6762/

Mwelrea from the Sea

by Geansai 13 May 2013

Good view of the highest summit in Connaught on the way up Tully Mountain. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/893/comment/14990/

Picture: Lough Tully with the Atlantic behind it with Mweelrea behind that and Croagh Patrick off in the dist

A gem on the fringes of Connemara.

by TommyV 5 Nov 2018

As Tully Mountain is isolated from the rest of the peaks in Connemara it offers probably the best views of Mweelrea and the Twelve Bens that you are likely to see. A few hundred metres past Derryherbert Quay, there is room to park a few cars near a farm track at L68457 59975 star

A. Follow this farm track for about 50 meters and you will see a gate on a height to the left. This will give you access to the mountain. From here it's a straight forward climb North West for less than 2 kilometers to the trig point at the summit. Fantastic VIews to rival that of it's bigger neighbours. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/893/comment/20199/

Lockdown photo #1

by timredfern 20 Jan 2021

I climbed Tully mountain ~140 times during the Cov-19 pandemic. Here are a few of my favourite photos Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/893/comment/22139/

Lockdown photo #2

by timredfern 20 Jan 2021

I climbed Tully mountain ~140 times during the Cov-19 pandemic. Here are a few of my favourite photos Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/893/comment/22140/

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		Some mapping: Open Street Map (Various variations used.)	British summit data courtesy: Database of British & Irish Hills (Creative Commons Licence)
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