Deep in the Cavan countryside

Parked at a farmyard on the South East side of the hill. Met a friendly young guy, the land owners son I assume and he showed us the way to access the hill at A (H47142 00418). It's a farm track that is also used as a Vodaphone access road that leads to the masts at the top of the hill. At the start this does not even look like a road that vehicles could access, it really is more of a field but rest assured this is the way up. The trig point is about 100 metres behind the masts. This is trickier to get to than you would expect. At the masts I went to the right to circle the compound. Do not do this, unless you want to fight through chest high briars and furs and even a wire fence covered in furs. Hop a wall on the left hand side of the masts, your body will thank you for it! Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/932/comment/20191/

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Strong Calves required

Thursday 31/10/2013. Using comments from Mt Views for directions I arrived at the access track for Slieve Glah, got out of car and met a local farmer, he was about to let a herd of calfs out of a field just across the road from the access path and into a field beside the access path. I spoke to him and he asked me to help him get the calfs across the road, so I duly obliged. when the cattle were safely across the road and into the field, the farmer told me there was no problem with climbing this hill. It took about 20mins on a good path to climb Slieve Glah, the trig point is uphill behind the masts. Headed back to car and onto Bruse Hill. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/932/comment/15242/

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paddyhillsbagger on Slieve Glah

Hooray for local hills! Despite tending to the garden in the morning and training for the Tri-Athlone in the afternoon, I still had time (and energy) to bag a climb!
I accessed Slieve Glah from the south on a minor road off the Cavan to Ballyjamesduff road. There are a plethora of communication masts and a rough track up to them. The trig point is about 100m beyond these masts up a rise. There are no clear paths beyond the masts and I had to fight through gorse and heather to get to the trig!
The views are worth the short discomfort and I followed a rough trail back down to the masts which exited to the left of the 2 masts on the right (looking down from the top) which was easier, but short trousers are not recommended! Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/932/comment/3871/

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Fills your heart with glahness.

Slieve Glah is a small, but visible hill south of Cavan town near the village of Crosskeys. The map suggests two access tracks, but I could only find the start of the more convoluted longer track.
It's twenty minutes up to the telecoms masts, and as Paddyhillsbagger says, plenty of gorse near the summit. Linkback: mountainviews.ie/summit/932/comment/6084/

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