July, 2012
The republic of Ireland has 13 3000ft summits, which might be classified as 7 distinct mountains and 6 tops:
- Carrauntoohill (1039m)
- Knockoughter (959m)
- Beenkeragh (1010m)
- Caher (1001m)
- Caher West Top (975m)
- Cnoc na Peiste (988m)
- Maolain Bui (973m)
- Cnoc an Chuilinn (958m)
- The Big Gun (939m)
- Cruach Mhor (932m)
- Brandon Mountain (952m)
- Lugnaquilia (925m)
- Galtymore (919m)
Iain and Catherine and I had climbed the Carrauntoohill horseshoe (1, 2 and 3, and tops) back in 1998. Iain and I also climbed Brandon Mountain that summer.
So that left Lugnaquilia (a broad high moorland in Co. Wicklow), Galtymore (the high point of a range of hills in Co. Tipperary) and McGillycuddy’s Reeks (Cnoc na Peiste and tops in Co. Kerry). Three mountains and 4 tops ….