Mweelrea
Sign in to saveMweelrea (; ) is a mountain on the Atlantic coast of County Mayo, Ireland. Rising to , it is the highest mountain in the western province of Connacht, and is noted for its southeastern cliff-lined corries, and its views. Mweelrea overlooks Killary Harbour and is at the heart of a "horseshoe-shaped" massif that includes the peaks of Ben Lugmore and Ben Bury. The massif is called the Mweelrea Mountains or the Mweelrea Range.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Mweelrea
- Mountain.other_name
- Cnoc Maol Réidh
- Mountain.photo
- File:Mweelrea from Ben Lugmore.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Mweelrea and the corrie lake of Lough Bellawaum, viewed from Ben Lugmore in the east
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 814
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 779
- Mountain.listing
- County top (Mayo), P600, 100 Highest Irish Mountains, Marilyn, Hewitt, Arderin, Simm, Vandeleur-Lynam
- Mountain.translation
- smooth bald hill
- Mountain.language
- Irish
- Mountain.location
- County Mayo, Ireland
- Mountain.range
- Mweelrea Mountains
- Mountain.map
- island of Ireland
- Mountain.map_relief
- yes
- Mountain.map_caption
- Location of Mweelrea in Ireland
- Mountain.grid_ref_Ireland
- L7898366810
- Mountain.topo
- OSi Discovery 37
- Mountain.easiest_route
- "Silver Strand"
- Mountain.normal_route
- "The Ramp" (Lug More corrie)
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Mweelrea (; ) is a mountain on the Atlantic coast of County Mayo, Ireland. Rising to , it is the highest mountain in the western province of Connacht, and is noted for its southeastern cliff-lined corries, and its views. Mweelrea overlooks Killary Harbour and is at the heart of a "horseshoe-shaped" massif that includes the peaks of Ben Lugmore and Ben Bury. The massif is called the Mweelrea Mountains or the Mweelrea Range.
Mweelrea is also the 26th-highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin list, and the 34th-highest on the Vandeleur-Lynam list.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mweelrea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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