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Foel Offrwm: Short trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 9 hours ago
Parked to west in small car park and crossed road and followed track for a while before we went straight up through the heather. This is marked with a square cairn

Ceiswyn: The view from North west

Summit Comment Fergalh 9 hours ago
In this photo the ascent of Ceiswyn can be seen. After reaching the summit it was a simple matter of heading south east and bypassing Mynydd Cwmeiddew to enter the forest and follow the forest ...

Ceiswyn: Nice ridge walk from Mynydd Fron-fraith

Summit Comment Fergalh 9 hours ago
From Mynydd Fron-fraith it was a simple matter of handrailing the edge of the cut down forest and heading in a roughly southerly direction. This was along a narrow undulating ridge that led to ...

Spelga Circuit

Track 4435 Peter Walker 13 hours ago
Text to follow Betwixt a co ck and a Pigeon|

Mynydd Fron-fraith: The View West

Summit Comment Fergalh 9 hours ago
This was a long ascent to this summit but worth it for this view from near the summit to the west

Mynydd Fron-fraith: Long trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 9 hours ago
From Godre Fynydd we dropped down onto forest track and than followed it past where we had joined it. We stopped directly east of the top as we had noticed from Godre Fynydd that the trees were...

Godre Fynydd: View from North west

Summit Comment Fergalh 10 hours ago
From the north west it looks daunting but it was not as bad as it looked as it was a heather bash rather than a push through

Godre Fynydd: Heather bash to summit from track

Summit Comment Fergalh 10 hours ago
Just to the North of Mynydd Cwmeiddew there was a track running south east. We dropped onto that and headed down that way until due north of the summit. The tress had a gape here but it was sti...

Mynydd Cwmeiddew: Tal Y Llyn lake from the slopes

Summit Comment Fergalh 10 hours ago
As is often on some hills the best views are on the slopes and not on the summit and this mountain was no exception.

Mynydd Cwmeiddew: Long trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 10 hours ago
Parked in Corris Uchaf and walked North on A487 (busy road care is needed) for a few hundred metres as far as entrance to forest. The track wound its way through forest gradually getting higher...

Moel Heulen: Short climb to summit from track

Summit Comment Fergalh 10 hours ago
Parked in the village of Corris and followed the forest tracks that wound around the hills ignoring all turns left. When you reach southwest of summit near a T Junction look for a firebreak. Fr...

Foel Boeth: View from the east

Summit Comment Fergalh a day ago
This was my third hill called Foel Beoth in the area and was hard earned. This is the view from the west top of Foel Ddu as there was no path and declining light, the route decision was important.
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South East Midlands Area   S: Mullinavat Subarea
Place count in area: 31, OSI/LPS Maps: 28A, 28B, 47, 48, 49, 53, 54, 55, 59, 60 
Highest place: Slievenamon, 720.2m
Maximum height for area: 720.2 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 711 metres,

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Tory Hill Hill Sliabh gCruinn A name in Irish (Ir. Sliabh gCruinn [OG], 'round mountain') Kilkenny County in Leinster Province, in Binnion List, Red, brown conglomerate & sandstone Bedrock

Height: 292m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 75,76 Grid Reference: S59612 22188
Place visited by 40 members. Recently by: Kirsty, dregish, deirdrec, magnumpig, conormcbandon, Nakoz, Barry28213, Bodek311, DeltaP, jlk, maike, mountainmike, bbarry2015, bryanjbarry, Garmin
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Longitude: -7.125425, Latitude: 52.348441 , Easting: 259612, Northing: 122188 Prominence: 170m,  Isolation: 8.2km,   Has trig pillar
ITM: 659585 622232,   GPS IDs, 6 char: TryHl, 10 char: Tory Hill
Bedrock type: Red, brown conglomerate & sandstone, (Carrigmaclea Formation)

The name Sliabh gCruinn also occurs in Co. Waterford (Slievegrine). The English name, Tory Hill, refers to a raparee. There is also a hill of this name in Co. Limerick. According to Rev. William Carrigan (the History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, 1905), Tory Hill in Kilkenny was so named from a famous outlaw named Edmund Den, who flourished in this locality, about the year 1700. Carrigan also reports that an annual pattern took place on the 2nd Sunday of July, locally known as 'Tory Hill Sunday' or 'Frochan Sunday'. On the flat ground below [the hill] called the Faithche (now the townland of Fahy), great games of hurling were said to have been held, sixty players to a side (MacNeill, 230-231).   Tory Hill is the 1175th highest place in Ireland. Tory Hill is the most southerly summit in the South East Midlands area.
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Easy access, but beware of cattle! .. by group   (Show all for Tory Hill (Sliabh gCruinn))
 
I have a guilty pleasure. If I admit to once wear .. by jackill   (Show all for Tory Hill (Sliabh gCruinn))
 
Cattle on the hill
by larrylampwick  6 Sep 2013
I dont think you should be put off by cattle on the hill. Cattle generally don't chase people. However there reports of wild boar having been let off on the hill. These are much more of a danger than cattle. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/962/comment/15172/
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great views to be had on clear day .. by hillclimber   (Show all for Tory Hill (Sliabh gCruinn))
 
An easy climb via a forest track and eventually o .. by larrylampwick   (Show all for Tory Hill (Sliabh gCruinn))
 
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