Cruach Mhór (

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for "big stack"), at high, is the tenth-highest peak in

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on the

Arderin Arderin () is a mountain on the border between Laois and Offaly in Ireland. With a height of 527 metres (1,729 ft) it is the highest point in the Slieve Bloom Mountains, and is the highest point in both County Laois and County Offaly. ...

list, and the eleventh-highest peak in Ireland according to the

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list. A distinctive square ''

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'' marks the summit. It is part of the

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Geography

Cruach Mhór is at the far eastern section of

, Ireland's highest mountain range. It is the first major peak in the ''

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'' when started from '' Kate Kearney's Cottage'' in the Gap of Dunloe. The ridge between Cruach Mhór and

Cnoc na Péiste Cnoc na Péiste ( Irish for "hill of the serpent"), anglicised Knocknapeasta, at , is the fourth-highest peak in Ireland, on the Arderin and Vandeleur-Lynam lists. Cnoc na Péiste is part of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks range in County Kerry. It ...

, is marked by

The Big Gun The Big Gun (), at high, is the ninth-highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin list, or the tenth-highest according to the Vandeleur-Lynam list. It is part of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks in County Kerry, and is also known as Lackagarrin or Foilna ...

at its centre, and is considered as offering some of the most exposed and serious hill walking in Ireland (equivalent to

The Bones The Bones (), at high, is the seventh-highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin list, or the eighth-highest according to the Vandeleur-Lynam list. It is part of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks in County Kerry, and is a small sharp peak on the dramatic ...

on the nearby ''

Beenkeragh Ridge Beenkeragh or Benkeeragh () is the second-highest peak in Ireland, at , on both the Arderin and Vandeleur-Lynam lists. It is part of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks range in County Kerry. Beenkeragh also gives its name the infamous ''Beenkeragh Rid ...

''). The Macgillycuddy's Reeks Ridge Walk continues along this ridge to

Maolán Buí Maolán Buí ( Irish for "yellow/golden round knoll"), also known by the name Bearna Rua, at high, is the fifth-highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin list, or the sixth-highest peak in Ireland according to the Vandeleur-Lynam list. Maolán ...

and on to

Carrauntoohil Carrauntoohil or Carrauntoohill ( ; ga, Corrán Tuathail , meaning "Tuathal's sickle") is the highest mountain in Ireland at . It is on the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, close to the centre of Ireland's highest mountain range, MacGillyc ...

, Ireland's highest mountain. Grotto of Cruach Mhor

Just over 3 km to the east-northeast of Cruach Mhór, across a sharp notch, is the lesser peak of Cnoc an Bhráca . There is a lower peak to the east of Cruach Mhór known as Cruach Bheag ("little stack"). On the summit of Cruach Mhór is a stone

built by a local farmer who hauled up the cement on his back, and its small statue is changed every year. The square structure, which sits on the exact summit, is visible from a distance. Cruach Mhór is the 401st-highest mountain in Britain and Ireland on the

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classification. It is listed by the

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("SMC") as one of 34

Furths This is a list of Furth mountains in Britain and Ireland by height. Furths are defined as mountains that meet the classification criteria to be a Scottish Munro, including being over in elevation, but which are ''furth'' of (i.e. "outside" of ...

, which is a mountain above in elevation, and meets the other SMC criteria for a

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(e.g. "sufficient separation"), but which is outside of (or ''furth'') Scotland; which is why Cruach Mhór is sometimes referred to as one of the 13

Irish Munro This is a list of Furth mountains in Britain and Ireland by height. Furths are defined as mountains that meet the classification criteria to be a Scottish Munro, including being over in elevation, but which are ''furth'' of (i.e. "outside" of) ...

Cruach Mhor and The Big Gun from Cnoc na Peiste Ridge (MacGillycuddy's Reeks)

Cruach Mhór's prominence qualifies it to meet the

classification, and the British Isles

and

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classifications. Cruach Mhór does not appear in the

MountainViews Online Database In these lists of mountains in Ireland, those within Northern Ireland, or on the Republic of Ireland – United Kingdom border, are marked with an asterisk, while the rest are within the Republic of Ireland. Where mountains are ranked by heigh ...

, '' 100 Highest Irish Mountains'', as the prominence threshold is over .Mountainviews, (September 2013), "A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins", Collins Books, Cork,

References

External links

MountainViews: The Irish Mountain Website
the largest database of British Isles mountains ("

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")
Hill Bagging UK & Ireland
the searchable interface for the

Ordnance Survey Ireland ("OSI") Online Map ViewerLogainm: Placenames Database of Ireland
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Geography

See also

References

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