Summit Register

Hewitt · Mayo, Ireland

Croagh Patrick

764 m

2,507 ftDrop 638 mL 905 802

Finder: 13 Hewitts in Mayo

sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmCroagh Patrick764Barrclashcame773Ben Gorm699Ben Lugmore803Maumtrasna682
sea level2,500 ft · Corbett height2,000 ft · Graham, Hewitt height2 kmCroagh Patrick764Barrclashcame773Ben Gorm699
Looking north, 5044 km wide, heights ×1629 (method).

Croagh Patrick is a Hewitt of 764 m in Mayo. Its closest neighbour in this register, Barrclashcame, is 12.0 km away.

Its drop of 638 m is 84% of its height: the col linking it to higher ground is only 126 m above sea level. All four of its nearest neighbours lie to the south, so it stands at the northern edge of its group. On the Hewitts height ladder it sits between Great Rigg (766.4 m) and Stony Cove Pike (763.7 m). The highest point is recorded as nw corner of chapel, not a cairn.

To scale

Summit764 mKey col126 mdrop 638 msea level
Key col L 876 736, 7.2 km south-west of the summit.

Where it stands

Height

764 m27th highest of 104 in Ireland

Drop

638 m94th of 1,140 across Britain and Ireland

Isolation

12.0 km118th most isolated of 1,139

Neighbours

  1. 1
    Barrclashcame12.0 km south-west
    773 m
  2. 2
    Ben Gorm15.6 km south
    699 m
  3. 3
    Ben Lugmore15.9 km south-west
    803 m
  4. 4
    Maumtrasna17.4 km south
    682 m
1234BarrclashcameBen GormMaumtrasnaN5 km

Lists

  • 98th highest of the 275 Hewitts profiled here
  • 488th highest of the 885 Marilyns profiled here

Record

Nearest higher
Barrclashcame, 773 m, 12.0 km south-west
Region
47A: South Mayo and Central Galway
OS map
30
Summit
NW corner of Chapel
DoBIH no.
20054
Map of Britain and Ireland marking Croagh Patrick

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