Summit Register

Hewitt · Mayo, Ireland

Birreencorragh

698 m

2,290 ftDrop 583 mG 024 050

Finder: 13 Hewitts in Mayo

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmBirreencorragh698Nephin806Nephin Beg627Corranabinnia712Slieve Carr721
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmBirreencorragh698Nephin806Nephin Beg627
Looking north, 4230 km wide, heights ×1420 (method).

Birreencorragh is a Hewitt of 698 m in Mayo. Its closest neighbour in this register, Nephin, is 8.4 km away.

Its drop of 583 m is 84% of its height: the col linking it to higher ground is only 115 m above sea level. It sits below Nephin, only 8.4 km to the east and 108 m higher. On the Hewitts height ladder it sits between Ben Gorm (699 m) and Allt-fawr (697.9 m). The summit is marked by a trig point. It falls on two OS 1:50,000 sheets, 23 and 31.

To scale

Summit698 mKey col115 mdrop 583 msea level
Key col F 965 107, 8.2 km north-west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

698 m47th highest of 104 in Ireland

Drop

583 m129th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

8.4 km186th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Nephin8.4 km east
    806 m
  2. 2
    Nephin Beg10.6 km north-west
    627 m
  3. 3
    Corranabinnia12.2 km west
    712 m
  4. 4
    Slieve Carr14.5 km north-west
    721 m
1234NephinNephin BegCorranabinniaSlieve CarrN5 km

Lists

  • 163rd highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 645th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Nephin, 806 m, 8.4 km east
Region
46B: Nephin Beg Range
OS map
23, 31
Summit
Fractured trig point base
DoBIH no.
20095
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Birreencorragh

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