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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 667 members. Recently by: Aneta.jablonska, MichaelButler, markv, chelman7, JohnHoare, John.geary, CraigRoche, Seamy13, agakilbride, Krzysztof_K, benjimann9, nolo, lauracardiff, Juanita, Daingean
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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 96th highest in Ireland. Seefingan is the second highest point in county Dublin.

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Seefingan (<i>Suí Fingain</i>) in area Dublin, Ireland
Picture: Seefingan from the north ridge.
 
Boggy cairned summit at crossroads of a few routes in NW Wicklow
Short Summary created by markmjcampion, simon3  3 May 2023
Seefingan sits at the meeting of three boggy ridges: Corrig to the N, Seefin to SW and Kippure to the E. The route to Kippure can be particularly boggy after rain. Around 400m W of the summit is an impressive collapsed megalithic tomb. A particular hazard here is that to the NW of the summit is Kilbride Camp with an actively used rifle range. Shown on the OS 1:50k, OSM maps (but not the OSI 1:10k, as on MV) this should be avoided. Great views of the Blessington Lakes, the other hills of the West Wicklow range, south to Mullaghcleevaun and E to Kippure and Sugarloaf.
The going in these hills can be v soft after prolonged rain.

W. Usually Seefingan would be reached at part of a longer walk eg. starting from O06299 16818 starA, going over Seefin to Seefingan and possibly further. Allow 90 mins to top.

NW. Start at O07338 20095 starB and head for Seahan and Corrig before heading S to Seefingan. ! hr 45mins+ depending on conditions underfoot. Finish by heading for Seefin and then WNW down to the road followed by a 2k roadwalk.

S. Park at the gates of the Kippure Estate and follow the track across the road. This eventually leads into heavy forest with a lot of deeply rutted tracks and felled trees. The best option is to head to the river bank (Athdown Brook) and climb up along the left side bank of it. 1.5 hrs

SW. Follow forest tracks to Seefin from O06819 14480 starC and head NE to Seefingan from here. 2 hrs

Notable tracks – the circular track/2846, track/2493 and track/2924 Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/92/comment/4852/
 
On Sunday the little lady and I tried out the See .. by Aderon   (Show all for Seefingan (Suí Fingain))
 
Seefingan in summer. Picture shows the summit cai .. by csd   (Show all for Seefingan (Suí Fingain))
 
I encorporated Seefingan as a Circular route of S .. by Homerclesse   (Show all for Seefingan (Suí Fingain))
 
This icy view appeared en-route from Seefingan to .. by simon3   (Show all for Seefingan (Suí Fingain))
 
A pretty handy walk across from Seefin with only .. by paulocon   (Show all for Seefingan (Suí Fingain))
 
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