Duff Hill
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| Duff Hill | |
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| File:South side of Duff Hill - geograph.org.uk - 1216731.jpg Summit viewed from the south | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 720 m (2,360 ft)[1] |
| Prominence | 65 m (213 ft)[1] |
| Listing | Hewitt, Arderin, Simm, Vandeleur-Lynam |
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| Naming | |
| Native name | Cnoc Dubh |
| English translation | black hill |
| Geography | |
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| Location | County Wicklow, Ireland |
| Parent range | Wicklow Mountains |
| OSI/OSNI grid | O093082[1] |
| Topo map | OSi Discovery 56 |
| Geology | |
| Mountain type | Granite with microcline phenocrysts[1] |
Duff Hill (Irish: An Cnoc Dubh, meaning 'black hill')[2] at 720 metres (2,360 ft), is the 78th-highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin scale,[3] and the 97th-highest peak on the Vandeleur-Lynam scale.[4][5] Duff Hill is in the middle section of the Wicklow Mountains, in County Wicklow, and is part of the large massif of Mullaghcleevaun 849 metres (2,785 ft), which lies to its south.[6] Gravale, which is 718 metres (2,356 ft) tall, lies to its immediate north.[7]
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See also
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Duff Hill.
- Wicklow Way
- Wicklow Mountains
- Lists of mountains in Ireland
- List of mountains of the British Isles by height
- List of Hewitt mountains in England, Wales and Ireland
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- MountainViews: The Irish Mountain Website, Duff Hill
- MountainViews: Irish Online Mountain Database
- The Database of British and Irish Hills , the largest database of British Isles mountains ("DoBIH")
- Hill Bagging UK & Ireland, the searchable interface for the DoBIH
