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Name: | Mount Leinster [Stua Laighean] |
Hill number: | 20038 |
Height: | 794.4m / 2606ft |
RHB Section: | 54B: Waterford, Kilkenny, Carlow |
County/UA: | Carlow, Wexford |
County (CoH): | Carlow (CoH), Wexford (CoH) |
Hill area: | Blackstairs Mountains |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Hewitt, Historic County Top, Current County/UA Top, Dillon, Vandeleur-Lynam, Arderin (Ma,Hu,Sim,Hew,CoH,CoU,Dil,VL,A,P600,P500) |
Grid ref: | S 82658 52534 |
Summit feature: | Ancient cairn 4m SSE of trig point |
Drop: | 726m |
Col: | 68m S845685 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 68 |
Survey: | Abney level/Trimble GeoXH 6000 |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 64 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
From Ninestiles car park to N. 2 hours drive from Dublin ferry. Locked gate then tarmac track steeply to aerial compound. Summit cairn with trig is 100 m away. Sheep pasture. Swirling cloud. | Denise | 20/06/2023 |
From the carpark. Easy up the access road to RTE mast. With Geraldine & Tiarnàn. | Pete West | 29/05/2022 |
Walked from carpark at entrance to top. Access very slippy due to baked in snow. Day dry dry cold. | Danny Devlin | 05/01/2022 |
Usual route from Nine Stones. Quick! | IanHHill | 01/11/2021 |
Parked at the Nine Stones car park (IS 81709 54613) and took the aerial access road (tarmac) all the way up, as the road was closed to vehicles. Visited the trig in a ruined granite mound before descending by my outward route. 5.6km, with 360m of ascent. Solo. | Man of Kernow1 | 12/10/2021 |
Route from Kieron Gribbon’s book Ireland’s county high points a three and half mile walk extended to take in the lower east top and taking three and half hours from the nine stones car park at the start of the access road at 81716 54606. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 12/09/2021 |
See blog entry for list of Irish Hills done in 2018, further information and gpx download: 
https://dai186.wixsite.com/mountainnomad/post/emerald-isle-total-tour | outlawcatcher | 24/10/2018 |
Nostalgic trip to the summit as the Blackstairs were the most noticeable & prominent mountains from my childhood days...when I always looked longingly across at them from my Grandmothers house! 
Perhaps my 3rd time to the summit so nice to officially record it now! | Gerry the Ranger | 26/06/2017 |
From the car park up the tarmac road and return in 80 minutes. With GB. | bolton | 08/09/2014 |
Nine Stones car park (S81716 54606) - Up RTE NL transmitter access road to ancient cairn & trig point. (PM) | gerrybowes | 08/09/2014 |
PMG Walk 21 | simoburn | 09/04/2014 |
Part of Blackstair challenge walk | Fergalh | 20/05/2013 |
Great views, took the easy way up the mast access road. 40 mins from carpark. | Roen | 25/10/2010 |
We went down to Borris for the Carlow Walking Festival. On saturday we did Walk B3 which took in the summit. Started at Rathanna, boggy at start and gentle but steep at top. Descended to 9 stones and up Slieve Bawn and down that. Beautiful but had a white | Audi-Anne | 11/10/2008 |
Another RTE road to county top. Half an hour. Cracking view | nickywood1 | 21/05/2008 |
First visit to Ireland's interior. Very windy but beautiful! | billthetiler | 02/05/2008 |
Park at the Nine Stones near the TV Transmitter Road and walk up the ridge rather than climb by the access road. | Harry Goodman | 13/10/2007 |
fine summit despite mast, lovely view. park to E by locked gate, walk transmitter road | RHW | 13/06/2004 |
What an unsighty mess the transmitter and fence are on this summit | roscorrocket | 12/07/2001 |
Drove up TarmacRoad to TV Transmitter station at 790m height. Very short walk to trig point at the top. Cloud base 750m. Good views below the cloud. Paddy Dillon is right about the (6) Nine stones. | andy | 12/08/1997 |
From the Nine Stones | cormacg | 15/07/1970 |
RichardM | 20/06/2023 | |
Crawford Lindsay | 14/05/2023 | |
wintergreen | 14/05/2023 | |
Sprog | 31/08/2022 | |
Learykid | 22/03/2020 | |
Onzy | 10/11/2017 | |
interloper | 20/07/2017 | |
Fletch | 20/07/2017 | |
Martin R | 13/06/2017 | |
David-Guenot | 20/05/2017 | |
jaizinho | 15/04/2016 | |
Barry Smith | 19/02/2014 | |
Stonecold | 01/01/2013 | |
luke1234 | 29/10/2012 | |
davefh | 19/07/2011 | |
richtea5040 | 20/03/2011 | |
ajwxyzt | 20/03/2011 | |
mae | 13/09/2010 | |
Malbdes | 05/08/2010 | |
jimbloomer | 10/06/2010 | |
Kiltie | 10/06/2010 | |
Halfdecent | 28/09/2008 | |
veganvixen | 28/09/2008 | |
neilsan | 25/08/2008 | |
chalky1953 | 01/05/2008 | |
Johnjoes | 10/02/2007 | |
SDillmore | 14/05/2005 | |
GaryJones | 01/10/2004 | |
fasgadh | 19/09/2003 |