The Dillons
Of all the Irish mountain lists, Paddy Dillon's definitely stands out from the crowd. To be included on the Dillon list, each qualifying summit only needs to satisfy a single numerical requirement (i.e. it must have a height of 2,000 feet or more above sea level). While all the other Irish mountain lists specify both height and prominence lower limits, Paddy deliberately omitted prominence from the equation. Instead, he relied on his own personal onsite assessment of each location. If he didn't think a 2,000-foot-plus summit looked or felt like a mountain, he didn't include it. Paddy's approach to compiling Irish mountain lists may be a bit different from others, but this man's knowledge and experience as a researcher and author is well-renowned and widely trusted. He knows what a mountain is. There are 212 summits on the Dillon list of Irish mountains.
This list was published in Paddy's book The Mountains of Ireland - A Guide to Walking the Summits. This excellent walking guide book contains 70 walking routes which together feature all 212 Irish mountain summits.
We would like to thank Paddy Dillon for agreeing the inclusion of his list on The Ireland Walking Guide website.
Mountain and hill summits offer great walking opportunities all year round, however we particularly recommend visiting them during months when the days are longest. For this reason, we promote upland walking as our monthly theme for June.
#JuneUplandWalk
This list was published in Paddy's book The Mountains of Ireland - A Guide to Walking the Summits. This excellent walking guide book contains 70 walking routes which together feature all 212 Irish mountain summits.
We would like to thank Paddy Dillon for agreeing the inclusion of his list on The Ireland Walking Guide website.
Mountain and hill summits offer great walking opportunities all year round, however we particularly recommend visiting them during months when the days are longest. For this reason, we promote upland walking as our monthly theme for June.
#JuneUplandWalk
All-Ireland map
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Each marker on the map represents the location of a Dillon summit in Ireland. Click on a marker for further information about that location.
Open expanded map in a new tab... All the summit locations marked on this map have also been listed in height order below. |
Listed by height
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