Arderin

Arderin

Arderin

Mountain in Laois/Offaly, Ireland

This article is about the mountain in Ireland. For the mountain classification, see Lists of mountains in Ireland § Arderins.

Arderin (Irish: Ard Éireann, meaning "Ireland's Height") is a mountain on the border between Laois and Offaly in Ireland. With a height of 527 metres (1,729 ft) it is the highest point in the Slieve Bloom Mountains, and is the highest point in both County Laois and County Offaly.[2]

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An Arderin is also a descriptive word for a specific category of Irish mountains in the series of lists maintained by Irish mountain database, MountainViews; those over 500m with a prominence of at least 30m.[3] This list, along with other complementary ones, has been published in book form by Collins Press.[4] Mountainviews.ie classifies a mountain as being above 500m, but also maintains a number of lists of hills below this threshold.[3]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Arderin". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  2. [2]
    "Arderin". MountainViews. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  3. [3]
    "Mountain Views". MountainViews. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  4. [4]
    Mountainviews, (2013), "A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins", Collins Books, Cork, ISBN 978-1-84889-164-7


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