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Benlettery
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Benlettery () at , is the 259th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin scale. Benlettery is in the southernmost peak of the Twelve Bens mountain range in the Connemara National Park in County Galway, Ireland, and is the 11th-tallest of the core Twelve Bens. The Ben Lettery An Oige youth hostel is on the southern slopes of Benlettery, off the N59 road to Clifden.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Benlettery is referenced by 66 other articles, and connects out to Benbaun, lists of mountains in Ireland and Garraun.
The entry is geolocated on the map in mountain_region, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Geography of County Galway, Mountains and hills of County Galway and Mountains under 1000 metres.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Galway
- Image
- Owenmore River and Benlettery - geograph.org.uk - 1425647.jpg
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- topographic prominence
- 62
- mountain range
- Twelve Bens
- Commons category
- Benlettery
- historic county
- County Galway
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Naming
- Geography
- ''Ben Lettery Connemara Youth Hostel''
- Hill walking
- Gallery
- Bibliography
- See also
- References
- External links
Benlettery () at , is the 259th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin scale. Benlettery is in the southernmost peak of the Twelve Bens mountain range in the Connemara National Park in County Galway, Ireland, and is the 11th-tallest of the core Twelve Bens. The Ben Lettery An Oige youth hostel is on the southern slopes of Benlettery, off the N59 road to Clifden.
==Naming== According to Irish academic Paul Tempan, the townland of Lettery (, meaning "wet hillsides") is on the south slope of Benlettery. Tempan notes an alternative name of Bindowglass or "Bendouglas" (, meaning "peak of the black stream") was recorded as early as 1684 by Irish historian Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh. Ó Flaithbheartaigh chronicled about a pool of water on the summit which turns the hair white of anyone who washes in it.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Benlettery” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations