Maumturks
The Maumturks or Maamturks (; mountains of the boar's pass) is a mountain range in Connemara, County Galway, in the west of Ireland. It is a long, broadly-straight range, consisting of weathered quartzite peaks in its central section. The Maumturks lie east of the Twelve Bens, on the other side of Lough Inagh and the Inagh Valley (a Western Way route).
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Maumturks (Maamturks)
- Mountain.photo
- View south to Knocknahillion from Letterbreckaun.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Maumturk Mountains: looking south from Letterbreckaun towards Knocknahillion and Binn idir an dá Log.
- Mountain.country
- Ireland
- Mountain.region
- Connacht
- Mountain.region_type
- Provinces of Ireland
- Mountain.length_km
- 25
- Mountain.length_orientation
- North West to South East
- Mountain.highest
- Binn idir an dá Log
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 702
- Mountain.translation
- pass of the boar
- Mountain.language
- Irish language
Article
8 sectionsContents
- Hill walking
- List of peaks
- Rock climbing
- Further reading
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
The Maumturks or Maamturks (; mountains of the boar's pass) is a mountain range in Connemara, County Galway, in the west of Ireland. It is a long, broadly-straight range, consisting of weathered quartzite peaks in its central section. The Maumturks lie east of the Twelve Bens, on the other side of Lough Inagh and the Inagh Valley (a Western Way route).
==Hill walking== The walk of the full range (from Maam Cross to Leenaun), is considered one of the "great classic ridge-walks of Ireland", and since 1975, the University of Galway Mountaineering Club, has run the annual "Maamturks Challenge", a walk covering the entire 25–kilometre range in a single day. Near the centre of the range in a deep glen is , a site of pilgrimage dedicated to Saint Patrick.