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The MacGillycuddy's Reeks range contains Ireland's highest mountain, Carrauntoohil 1,038.6 m (3,407 ft), and the Reeks is the highest range of peaks in Ireland. [ 29 ] [ 9 ] However, many of its peaks do not meet all classification criteria for a "mountain" (e.g. particularly the 100–150 m (330–490 ft) in elevation change from neighbouring ...
The Silvermine Mountains or Silvermines Mountains (Irish: Sliabh an Airgid) [1] are a mountain range in County Tipperary, Ireland. The highest peak of the range is Keeper Hill or Slievekimalta at 694 metres (2,277 ft) high. Traditionally, the mountains were deemed to be part of the Slieve Felim Mountains. [2] [3]
[17] [18]: 3 [19] Some mountain ranges are further inland in the south of Ireland, such as the Galtee Mountains (the highest inland range), [20] Silvermine and Slieve Bloom Mountains. [17] There is an area of raised land near the northeastern coast, the Antrim Plateau, which contains the Glens of Antrim ; this area is sometimes called the ...
The Twelve Bens or Twelve Pins, also called the Benna Beola [2] (Irish: Na Beanna Beola, meaning 'the peaks of Beola'), [a] is a mountain range of mostly sharp-peaked quartzite summits and ridges in the Connemara National Park [b] in County Galway, in the west of Ireland. [4]
The Mourne Mountains (/ m ɔːr n / MORN; Irish: Beanna Boirche), also called the Mournes or the Mountains of Mourne, are a predominantly granite mountain range in County Down in the south-east of Northern Ireland. [1] They include the highest mountain in all of Ulster, Slieve Donard at 850 m (2,790 ft). [2]
The Wicklow Mountains are the largest area of continuous high ground in Ireland, having an unbroken area of over 500 km 2 (190 sq mi) above 300 metres (980 ft). [7] They occupy the centre of County Wicklow and extend into Counties Dublin , Carlow and Wexford . [ 8 ]
The Slieve Bloom Mountains stretch from near Roscrea in the south west to Rosenallis in the north-west, forming a link between County Laois and County Offaly. Looped walking trails have been developed at six trailheads in the Slieve Blooms, Glenbarrow, Clonaslee , Cadamstown , Kinnitty , Glenafelly Forest Car Park and Glen Monicknew.
Beenkeragh is regarded by the Scottish Mountaineering Club ("SMC") as one of 34 Furths, which is a mountain above 3,000 ft (914 m) in elevation, and meets the other SMC criteria for a Munro (e.g. "sufficient separation"), but which is outside of (or furth) Scotland; [4] which is why Beenkeragh is sometimes referred to as one of the 13 Irish Munros.