Park at Q743 107 A (Point A), where the narrow road turns to the left, beside a nearby a house, and where there is just room for a couple of cars. Head up the track at the side of the house and you will reach a stile which leads onto the open mountain. Follow a faint path to the right of the gorge of the Derrymore River. You will need to cross the river at some point, probably around Q744 093 B. There are a number of impressive waterfalls to your left as you proceed in a SSE direction for roughly 1km up the steeply rising slope, but which is quite climbable. The well-defined summit is rocky with a number of large, flat boulders scattered about. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/93/comment/4853/

Often it's the outlying tops of any given mountain area that have the most interesting views. (Think Knockastakeen in the Galtees or Bla Bheinn in the Cuillins on Skye). This top is 750m NW of the main summit, giving a commanding position overlooking the Derrymore Glen and views of the Gearhane to Caherconree ridge.

And then there are these odd perching stones on the summit. The coastline behind is around Fenit and the island above and slightly to the left of the left stone rejoices in the name "Fenit Within". Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/93/comment/2057/

This picture of BNW was taken while ascending Gearhane from the North. From this angle BNW looks remarkably conical -- It's like a huge pleated skirt. (You need some imagination to see this. ok lots) Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/93/comment/2056/

Instead of slogging up Gerhane, an nice alternative route to Caherconree, Bautregaum and its adjacent tops is to head into Derrymore Glen (following the Derrymore river) and scramble up the back wall of the coum behind the lakes. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/93/comment/17835/

As I started out, mist was descending from the south over the col between Bautregaum and Caherconree down into Derrymore Glen. Baurtregaum NW was coming in and out of view.

I followed the rocky track into Derrymore Glen (along the west side of the river) from the Dingle Way to the North. Kept going south until almost reaching the largest lake towards the head of the glen where it is easy to step across the multiple shallow, narrow streams and head north-eastwards to reach this subsidiary top.

Crossing the streams further north would be more difficult as they have cut ravines and there is a deep cutting stream flowing out of the col between this top and the Scragg spur to the north east.

Upon reaching BNW, having completed my sole objective on this evening outing and with thick mist above the 700 metre mark I had the choice of retracing my steps back to the beautiful glen or finding a route back down to the north.

Reaching for Adrian Hendroff's book on Dingle I noted his suggestion of heading north east to point 657, marked as Scragg on the OS (a nice viewpoint in its own right), then north/north west down the steep slope of Scragg. With hindsight, I really don't think this is a good way down. As Hendroff notes (though I would rather caution), the lower reaches of the northern slope of Scragg, (as is the case seemingly pretty much with the lower northern reaches of all the Slieve Mish), are heavily cloaked in very deep heather, grass, and worse still, bracken. It is quite difficult to safely make your way down as the high bracken in particular conceals a multitude of ankle snaring hollows, rocks and crevices. At the very least, this should not be attempted without sticks. I was very happy to have exited this "wouldn't wish on my worst enemy" purgatory and safely find my way back to the Dingle Way.

That said, the glen itself is a marvellous place to visit, so if I had my time again, I might have tried to get back down the steep slope towards the larger lake and enjoy the views of the cascading streams down the walls of the glen in the swirling mist. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/93/comment/23246/