Caher Mountain
Caher or Caher East Top at 1,000 metres, is the third-highest peak in Ireland, on the Irish Arderin and Vandeleur-Lynam classifications. It is part of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks in County Kerry.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Robert Bone, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,000 metres
- Description: mountain in Kerry, Ireland
- Also known as: “Caher”, “Caher East Top”, and “Caher ridge”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carrauntoohill and Caher West Top.
Carrauntoohill
Peak
Photo: Enter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Carrauntoohil, Carrauntoohill or Carrantuohill is the highest mountain in Ireland at 1,038.6 metres. It is on the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry, close to the centre of Ireland's highest mountain range, MacGillycuddy's Reeks.
Caher West Top
Peak
Photo: Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Caher West Top at 973.4 metres, is the fifth-highest peak in Ireland on the Irish Vandeleur-Lynam classification, and part of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks range. Caher West Top is the only Furth to have a prominence below 30 metres.
Beenkeragh
Peak
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Beenkeragh or Benkeeragh is the second-highest peak in Ireland, at 1,008.2 metres. It is part of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks range in County Kerry. Beenkeragh also gives its name the infamous Beenkeragh Ridge, the narrow rocky arete between Beenkeragh and Carrauntoohil, Ireland's highest mountain.
Caher Mountain
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: County Kerry, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.99445° or 51° 59′ 40″ northLongitude
-9.75839° or 9° 45′ 30″ westElevation
1,000 metres (3,281 feet)Open location code
9C3GX6VR+QJOpenStreetMap ID
node 332372479OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Caher Mountain” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Caher mendia”
- Cebuano: “Caher (bukid sa Ireland)”
- Cebuano: “Caher”
- Dutch: “Caher”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كاهير”
- Irish: “Cathair na Féinne”
- Irish: “Cathair”
- Ladin: “Caher”
- Lombard: “Cathair”
- Polish: “Caher”
- Spanish: “Cathair na Feinne”
- Spanish: “Cathair na Féinne”
- Swedish: “Caher (berg i Irland)”
- Swedish: “Caher”
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Highlights include Curraghmore and Lough Eagher.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Caher Mountain”. Photo: Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0.