Lissoughter
Lissoughter or Lissoughter Hill (Irish: Cnoc Lios Uachtair, meaning 'hill of the upper ring-fort') is a prominent hill between the Twelve Bens and Maumturks mountain ranges, at the southern entrance to the Inagh Valley, in the Connemara National Park of County Galway, Ireland. With a height of 401 metres (1,316 ft), it does not qualify to be an Arderin or a Vandeleur-Lynam, however, its prominence of 336 metres (1,102 ft) ranks it as a Marilyn.
A quarry on Lissoughter's southern slopes (the Lissoughter-Derryclare quarry, named after the peak and the neighbouring Derryclare mountain), is a noted source of the green-coloured Connemara marble (sometimes called Connemara Lissoughter Marble). As an isolated standalone peak, it is less frequented by hill-walkers, however, it is regarded for its views of the two ranges and the southern boglands of Connemara.
Gallery
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Lough Inagh and Lissoughter (back, right), viewed from Knockpasheemore
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Lissoughter, viewed from forest in Recess, County Galway
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Connemara marble from the Lissoughter quarry.
Bibliography
- MountainViews Online Database (Simon Stewart) (2013). A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins. Collins Books. ISBN 978-1-84889-164-7.
- Tim Robinson (2007). Connemara: Listening to the Wind. Penguin. ISBN 978-1844880669.
- Dillion, Paddy (2001). Connemara: Collins Rambler's guide. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0002201216.
- Dillion, Paddy (1993). The Mountains of Ireland: A Guide to Walking the Summits. Cicerone. ISBN 978-1852841102.
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lissoughter.
- Twelve Bens, major range in Connemara
- Maumturks, major range in Connemara
- List of Marilyns in the British Isles
References
- ^ "Lissoughter". MountainViews Online Database. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ Paul Tempan (February 2012). "Irish Hill and Mountain Names" (PDF). MountainViews.ie.
- ^ Mountainviews, (September 2013), "A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins", Collins Books, Cork, ISBN 978-1-84889-164-7
- ^ Dillion, Paddy (2001). Connemara: Collins Rambler's guide. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0002201216.
Walk 20: Recess and Cnoc Lios Uachtair
- ^ Simon Stewart (October 2018). "Arderins: Irish mountains of 500+m with a prominence of 30m". MountainViews Online Database.
- ^ Simon Stewart (October 2018). "Vandeleur-Lynams: Irish mountains of 600+m with a prominence of 15m". MountainViews Online Database.
- ^ Tim Robinson (2007). Connemara: Listening to the Wind. Penguin. ISBN 978-1844880669.
- ^ "CONNEMARBLE GREEN Irish marble". MarbleGuide.com. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
Connemarble Green is a green marble from Ireland (Derryclare, Lissoughter, Recess, Co. Galway, Connemara).
External links
- MountainViews: The Irish Mountain Website, Lissoughter
- MountainViews: Irish Online Mountain Database
- The Database of British and Irish Hills , the largest database of British Isles mountains ("DoBIH")
- Hill Bagging UK & Ireland, the searchable interface for the DoBIH