[RWD version 1 ] This was definitely among my personal top 5 most difficult Carns. 5.5km from car to summit, much of it on unpleasant terrain. Although I should say the views made up for it somewhat. There is parking for about 10 cars at the start point. Cross the road into the woodland and take the first track on the immediate right. This is the easiest part. Follow the forest trail north for about 3km until it peters out about 400m east of Crohane Lough. The next section is horrible as you turn west towards the southern tip of the lough – it’s a mixture of waist-high reeds, old clear-fell, heather, gorse, barbed wire fences and it’s also boggy, and uneven underfoot. Having negotiated that wild bit, I was surprised to find basic stile over a fence just south of the lough, but no sign of a track. Crossed the fence and turned northward up the eastern side of the hill and began a slow ascent. The terrain here was only slightly better – heather, gorse, uneven, but the views were tremendous. I did find a very basic trail of sorts, which regularly disappeared, but it wisely kept me relatively low on the hill’s eastern flank, which meant I avoided a few false summits, and I only really made any serious height gains when I’d passed the northern tip of Crohane Lough. The ground became much steeper then, and I could glimpse Lough Nabroda between the two steep-sided hills. When you get to about 430m ascent, you are faced with an unclimbable wall of rock and scree, and it is necessary to skirt the top of the hill to find access up a lesser gradient. Finally reached the summit after about 3.5 hours, although I was taking my time given the roughness of the terrain. Fantastic views in all directions, especially of the two loughs to the south and Lough Guitane to the north.