Summit Register

Hewitt · Galway, Ireland

Bencorr

711 m

Binn an Choire

2,333 ftDrop 305 mL 811 522

Finder: 13 Hewitts in Galway

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmBencorr711Bencollaghduff697Benbreen692Benbaun729Binn Gabhar665
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height1 kmBencorr711Bencollaghduff697Benbreen692
Looking north, 108 km wide, heights ×36 (method).

Bencorr is a Hewitt of 711 m in Galway. Of the register hills in Galway, only Benbaun stands higher.

All four of its nearest neighbours lie to the west, so it stands at the eastern edge of its group. Its other name is Binn an Choire.

To scale

Summit711 mKey col406 mdrop 305 msea level
Key col L 788 531, 2.5 km west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

711 m41st highest of 104 in Ireland

Drop

305 m422nd of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

3.1 km562nd most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Bencollaghduff1.6 km north-west
    697 m
  2. 2
    Benbreen2.9 km west
    692 m
  3. 3
    Benbaun3.1 km north-west
    729 m
  4. 4
    Binn Gabhar3.3 km south-west
    665 m
1234BencollaghduffBenbreenBenbaunBinn GabharN2 km

Lists

  • 146th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 604th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Benbaun, 729 m, 3.1 km north-west
Region
47B: The Twelve Bens
OS map
37
DoBIH no.
20086
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Bencorr

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