Keeper Hill
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use Irish English Template:Infobox mountain Keeper Hill or Slievekimalta (Template:Irish derived place name)[1] is a mountain with a height of Script error: No such module "convert".[2] in the Silvermine Mountains of County Tipperary, Ireland. Traditionally, it was deemed to be part of the Slieve Felim Mountains.[3][4]
Name
Keeper Hill, also known as Slievekimalta, gets its name from a little-known tale about Sadb, daughter of Conn of the Hundred Battles, raising her children Eogan and Indderb on this mountain after they had been rejected by their father Ailill Aulom, king of Munster.[2]
Geography
The mountain is about 15 km east of Limerick City. Keeper Hill is the highest mountain in the Silvermines (and the wider Shannon area) and the 58th highest in Ireland. There is a stone circle in Bauraglanna townland on the northeastern slopes, known as Firbrega ('false men').[2]
Access to the summit
There is a looped walk around the lower shoulders of Keeper Hill, to which the ‘hardy’ walker can add the ‘trek’ to the summit. This loop walk is part of the National Looped Walks and is marked using the standard purple National Looped Walk directional arrows.[5]
Historically, a Lughnasadh gathering was held on the summit each August.[2]
Conservation
On the slopes of Keeper Hill is a woodland of 3,300 hectares, mostly of non-native conifers. The 300 hectare summit is blanket bog and Nardus grassland, considered of ecological importance. Keeper Hill is designated a Special Area of Conservation.[6]
See also
- Lists of mountains in Ireland
- List of mountains of the British Isles by height
- List of P600 mountains in the British Isles
- List of Marilyns in the British Isles
- List of Hewitt mountains in England, Wales and Ireland
References
- ↑ Slievekimalta or Keeper Hill. Placenames Database of Ireland.
- ↑ a b c d Keeper Hill. MountainViews.ie.
- ↑ Slieve Felim. MountainViews.ie.
- ↑ Tempan, Paul (2006). "Two Mountain Names: Slieve Felim and Mauherslieve" Script error: No such module "webarchive".. North Munster Antiquarian Journal, volume 6. pp.120-122
- ↑ Keeper Hill Trek, Shannon Region Trails
- ↑ Keeper Hill SAC, National Parks and Wildlife Service
External links
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