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Lake District: Langdale South

Brown Knowe: Straight forward track to the summit

Lake District: Langdale West

Lamb Knowe: Short trek from Tods Knowe

Tods Knowe: Long and heather bash descent to summit

Lake District: Hartsop above How

Broad Law: Do not approach on a misty day

Lake District: Hard Knott

Broad Law: Straight forward track to the summit

Lake District: Fleetwith Pike

East Cairn Hill: Two summits on this hill 500 metres apart

West Cairn Hill: Follow the wall

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Dublin Area   S: Kippure & Kilbride Subarea
Place count in area: 18, OSI/LPS Maps: 43, 50, 56, AWW, EW-DM, EW-WE, EW-WW 
Highest place:
Kippure, 757m
Maximum height for area: 757 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 262 metres,

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Seefingan Mountain Suí Fingain A name in Irish, also Suí Fionnagáin, also Shankill Mountain an extra EastWest name in English (Ir. Suí Fingain [OSNB*], 'Fingan's seat') Dublin/ Wicklow County in Leinster Province, in Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam, Irish Highest Hundred Lists, Fine-grained granodiorite to granite Bedrock

Height: 722.9m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 56 Grid Reference: O08667 16980
Place visited by 730 members. Recently by: MartMc, Miriamowens, Jimmel357, coolagad, maryblewitt, Marykerry, PrzemekPanczyk, gunningp, rwroby, orlaithfitz, Enda66, rosduke, RosieMc, Aidan_Ennis, djay281
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Longitude: -6.374931, Latitude: 53.192444 , Easting: 308668, Northing: 216981 Prominence: 101.45m,  Isolation: 1.5km
ITM: 708593 717010,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Sfngn, 10 char: Seefingan
Bedrock type: Fine-grained granodiorite to granite, (Type 1 granodiorite)

Seefingan, like Seefin and Seahan, has a large megalithic cairn on its summit.   Seefingan is the second highest mountain in the Dublin area and the 97th highest in Ireland. Seefingan is the second highest point in county Dublin.

Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/92/
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Take R759 off the N81 to Blessington at the turn .. by GWPR   (Show all for Seefingan (Suí Fingain))
 
eflanaga on Seefingan, 2007
by eflanaga  12 Feb 2007
Climbed 10/02/07 as part of Seefingan Circuit (submitted by Djouce (Walks Section). Start for this section of the walk was from the summit cairn on Seefin IO 07361 16274 starA. From here on a dry but heavily overcast morning, which meant that the top of the mountains were enveloped in cloud, I set a bearing of 65 degrees in order to take me to the target summit. The snow on the col and on the south-western slope of Seefingan was not too deep, so walking was not impeded too much. This was my first time on the mountain and with the ground covered in snow I expected I would have to rely totally on the map/compass. However, I found that I could follow what appears to be a track, noticeable, simply, by its uniformity, i.e. smooth clean white snow, compared to the area around it where the snow was broken by tufts of grass and/or heather. After a short time I noticed a fence to my right and started to climb adjacent to this for the remainder of the ascent to the summit cairn, while the summit proper appears to be a short distance away to the east. I spent a little time trying to establish that I had reached this 'true' summit but with heavy snow covering it was difficult to be sure, unless it corresponds with the siting of another of the many military warning signs. One was placed more or less in the area where, according to the map (OS 56) the true summit is supposed to be! Rather, than delaying any longer I decided to push on towards my next target – Corrig Mtn which is almost 2.5K to the north. Unfortunately, no pictures as I forgot to take my camera with me! Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/92/comment/2615/
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The easiest approach due to erosion .. by dmcdevitt   (Show all for Seefingan (Suí Fingain))
 
Seefingan from Seefin is a pleasant enough stroll .. by murphysw   (Show all for Seefingan (Suí Fingain))
 
We made our way from Seefin over to Seefingan via .. by sinbadw   (Show all for Seefingan (Suí Fingain))
 
On Sunday the little lady and I tried out the See .. by Aderon   (Show all for Seefingan (Suí Fingain))
 
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