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These are most commonly known as county high points but are also sometimes referred to as county tops and county peaks. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] There are 32 counties in Ireland but in the case of 10 counties, marked with (‡), the highest point is shared between two counties, so there are only 27 distinct Irish county high points.
County Height (m) Relative height Name Grid reference; 1 Down: 850 822 Slieve Donard: 2–3 Londonderry and Tyrone: 678 657 Sawel: 4 Fermanagh: 665 570 Cuilcagh: 5 Armagh: 573 478 Slieve Gullion: 6 Antrim: 550 515 Trostan
Highest settlement: Meelin, County Cork, Republic of Ireland (254 m / 832 ft) Lowest point: North Slob, County Wexford, Republic of Ireland (−3 m / −10 ft) Many points are on, or near sea level, but due to high rainfall, there are no natural dry pieces of land below sea level - see rivers and loughs below.
It is on the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, close to the centre of Ireland's highest mountain range, MacGillycuddy's Reeks. Carrauntoohil is composed mainly of sandstone , whose glaciation produced distinctive features on the mountain such as the Eagle's Nest corrie and some deep gullies and sharp arêtes in its east and northeastern faces ...
Brandon Hill (Gribbon No. 071) is known as the county high point but are also sometimes referred to as county top and county peak. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is listed as one of the 200 Myrddyn Deweys, which are the Irish equivalent of Deweys .
Errigal [3] (Irish: An Earagail) [4] is a 751-metre (2,464 ft) mountain near Gweedore in County Donegal, Ireland. [1] It is the tallest peak of the Derryveagh Mountains and the tallest peak in County Donegal. [1] Errigal is also the most southern and the highest of the mountain chain called the "Seven Sisters" by locals.
Lugnaquilla [4] (Irish: Log na Coille, meaning 'hollow of the wood') [5] is the highest of the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland, rising to 925 metres (3,035 ft). It is also the highest Irish mountain outside of County Kerry, [6] and the highest point in County Wicklow and the province of Leinster.
Mount Brandon is at the centre of a long high ridge called the Brandon Group range of mountains in the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry. The ridge contains seven other major peaks (i.e. above 2,000 ft in height); one is the similarly named Brandon Peak (840 metres).