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Benbradagh () is a large hill near Dungiven in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It rises to and is north of the Sperrin Mountains.

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Mountain.name
Benbradagh
Mountain.other_name
Binn Bhradach
Mountain.photo
Benbradagh.jpg
Mountain.photo_caption
Benbradagh as seen from Derryork, in October 2008
Mountain.elevation_m
465
Mountain.prominence_m
171
Mountain.range
Sperrin Mountains
Mountain.location
County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Mountain.map
UK Northern Ireland#Island of Ireland#United Kingdom
Mountain.map_caption
Location in Northern Ireland
Mountain.label_position
none
Mountain.grid_ref_Ireland
C7219411337
Mountain.topo
OSNI Discoverer Series 13 The Sperrins (1:50000), OSNI Activity Map Sperrins (1:25000)

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Elevation
465
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topographic prominence
171
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Benbradagh () is a large hill near Dungiven in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It rises to and is north of the Sperrin Mountains.

Benbradagh was used from the 1940s to the early 1970s as a United States Military communications base for its North Atlantic fleet. US forces also built underground stores for high explosives at Benbradagh. In the early 1980s, Col Buckley, of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (Ireland), believed the UK could use the facility to store nuclear weapons. Col Buckley complained that he did not have "the monitoring or surveillance systems" to confirm whether nuclear weapons were being kept there, but the British strongly denied having nuclear weapons in Northern Ireland.

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