The Mountains of Ireland
Traditionally, a "mountain" in Ireland would only have been classified as a proper mountain if its summit was at least 2,000 feet above sea level. While most hillwalkers and mountaineers have now moved on to embrace the metric system, we have decided to respect this particular summit listing tradition by recognising 2,000 feet as the minimum height of a proper Irish mountain.
The list of Irish mountains below was created by combining two separate and long-established third-party summit lists (the Dillons and the Irish Hewitts) both of which were compiled using the traditional 2,000 feet lower height limit. These two lists are very similar (200 summits feature in both), but their secondary selection criteria have produced several differences. The combined lists comprise a total of 221 mountains in Ireland.
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
The list of Irish mountains below was created by combining two separate and long-established third-party summit lists (the Dillons and the Irish Hewitts) both of which were compiled using the traditional 2,000 feet lower height limit. These two lists are very similar (200 summits feature in both), but their secondary selection criteria have produced several differences. The combined lists comprise a total of 221 mountains in Ireland.
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 mountain summit in Ireland. Click on a marker for further information about that location.
All the summit locations marked on this map have also been listed in height order below. |
Listed by height
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