Barranisky is a small hill but it is difficult to reach the summit due to dense gorse and forestry growth. It is advisable to use a GPS to help track down the elusive trig pillar, although a few of us plucky MountainViewers have torn ourselves to shreds to bring the route to you!

Start at the forest entrance at T25529 80221 A which has space for 5 or 6 cars. Go up the track and take first right after 270m. Follow the track up hill. Eventually you will see the ruin of an old house at T25533 79336 B.Turn right here up a small track between the trees (be warned – don’t take the larger green road before this track as you will regret it!)
The track stops after 300m and then you must plunge into the impenetrable gorse to find the trig pillar only about 75 metres away. A faint trail may be present – but this will more likely be a whisper of where us previous pioneers have passed through, and may consist of nothing more than a slight disturbance of the gorse. The trig pillar you seek is at T256 790 C

You could also turn off the main road at T243 790 D and follow it past a number of houses until it comes to a dead end at a gate at T249 791 E, with a sign saying “Private, Keep Out”. However Eircom have an agreed access track from the “Private No Entry” gate up through the farmland to their masts at the summit of Barranisky East. From here it is an easy ramble across to the ruin mentioned earlier. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/972/comment/5731/

I practically fell onto the trig point. The crawl space I'd been following stopped at a massive clump of gorze which masked the pillar. I was just starting to scan the ground for possible sites when it appeared in front of me.
In all I spent about 10 minutes in the final crawl in and out, nearly losing an eye in the process.
Many thanks to those who went before me, putting up the route making the nearly impossible just about possible. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/972/comment/6275/

View of the north side of Barranisky showing the ruined house near the least worst way to the summit. The north eastern summit (270m) with its telecoms towers is also obvious. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/972/comment/4701/

Barranisky looks harmless enough as viewed from Barranisky East. Even though the top looks flat enough, there is a summit trig pillar buried in the dense growth. Should the main summit as a whole be named Barranisky East, as there is a seperate Barrinisky West? Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/972/comment/3442/

Have you ever watched those old movies set in the Amazonian jungle, featuring the likes of Victor Mature or Charlton Heston hacking their way through dense undergrowth, and thought 'that looks like fun'? Well Barranisky is the hill for you.
I was determined to take the easiest route to the summit, so I followed Simon3's route as far as the old ruin at T25533 79336 B. However, there was another green road off to the right before the one mentioned, and so ensued 30 minutes of crawling on hands and knees through dense forestry. I eventually emerged, scratched and bedraggled onto the correct green road, and then spent another twenty minutes battering my way through 7ft high gorse to the summit.
The trig pillar, when it suddenly hoves into view, has something of the Raiders of the Lost Ark feel.. I would have been only mildly surprised to see a crystal skull set atop it.
A summit for the serious collector only. Or the masochist. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/972/comment/5983/