Summit Register

Hewitt · Galway, Ireland

Barrslievenaroy

702 m

Mulnahogue

2,303 ftDrop 629 mL 888 528

Finder: 13 Hewitts in Galway

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmBarrslievenaroy702Letterbreckaun668Binn Mhor660.6Leenaun Hill616Corcogemore610.1
sea level2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmBarrslievenaroy702Letterbreckaun668Binn Mhor660.6
Looking north, 2113 km wide, heights ×710 (method).

Barrslievenaroy is a Hewitt of 702 m in Galway. In the database's Maumturk Mountains region it is the highest of seven register hills, above Maumtrasna and five others.

The key col lies 25.7 km away to the north-east, at 73 m. Its drop of 629 m is 90% of its height: the col linking it to higher ground is only 73 m above sea level. It overtops all four of its nearest neighbours; the tallest of them, Letterbreckaun, reaches 668 m. Of the register hills in Galway, only Benbaun and Bencorr stand higher. It shares its height of 702 m with Trollabhal, Beinn Fhada (Argyll and Bute) and Bowscale Fell. On the Hewitts height ladder it sits between Slievelamagan (702.2 m) and Bowscale Fell (702 m). Its other name is Mulnahogue.

To scale

Summit702 mKey col73 mdrop 629 msea level
Key col M 033 740, 25.7 km north-east of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

702 m44th highest of 104 in Ireland

Drop

629 m97th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

7.7 km207th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Letterbreckaun3.9 km north-west
    668 m
  2. 2
    Binn Mhor4.6 km south-east
    660.6 m
  3. 3
    Leenaun Hill6.6 km north
    616 m
  4. 4
    Corcogemore7.4 km south-east
    610.1 m
1234LetterbreckaunBinn MhorLeenaun HillCorcogemoreN5 km

Lists

  • 157th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 631st highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Bencorr, 711 m, 7.7 km west
Region
47C: Maumturk Mountains
OS map
37
Summit
Cairn
DoBIH no.
20093
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Barrslievenaroy

Data: DoBIH v18.6, CC BY 4.0 (method). What prominence (drop) means, with real figures