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{{short description|Mountain range in County Kerry, Ireland}}
{{see also|Mountains of the Dingle Peninsula}}
{{Infobox mountain range▼
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{Use Hiberno-English|date=May 2021}}
| name=Slieve Mish Mountains
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| translation =
| language = [[Irish language|Irish]]
| photo=File:Fenit Marina Ireland.JPG
| photo_caption= Slieve Mish Mountains from across the [[Tralee Bay]] in the village of [[Fenit]]
| country=
| location = [[County
| region = [[Munster]]
| region_type = [[Provinces of Ireland]]
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| highest=[[Baurtregaum]]<ref name="SAC1"/><ref name="mountainviews"/>
| elevation_m=851
| elevation_ref = <ref name="SAC1"/><ref name="mountainviews">{{cite web|url=http://mountainviews.ie/summit/17/|title=Baurtregaum|publisher=[[MountainViews Online Database]]|accessdate=8 February 2019}}</ref
| coordinates = {{coord|52|12|N|9|46|W|region:IE_type:mountain_source:GNS-enwiki|display=inline,title}}
| range_coordinates =
| geology= Purple sandstone (and Quatrzite)<ref name="SAC1"/><ref name="SAC2"/> ▼
▲| period=| orogeny =
| map=island of Ireland
| map_caption=Location of Slieve Mish Mountains
▲| geology= Purple cross-bedded sandstone
| period= [[Ordovician]] to Late [[Carboniferous]]<ref name =WB />
| topo = [[Ordnance Survey of Ireland|OSI]] ''Discovery'' 71
}}
'''Slieve Mish Mountains''' ({{lga|Sliabh Mis|
== Naming ==
The Irish language term "Sliabh" denotes a mountain, however, the precise meaning of "Mis" has not been validated. Irish academic Paul Tempan notes that it could be related to [[Slemish]] mountain in [[County Antrim]], where the term "Mis" is from a female name, and thus translates as "the mountains of Mis".<ref name="peak"/>
== Geology ==
Like many of the mountain ranges in County Kerry, such as the [[MacGillycuddy Reeks]] in the [[Iveragh Peninsula]], the Slieve Mish Mountains are composed predominantly of [[Devonian]]
The rocks of the Slieve Mish Mountains and the [[Mount Brandon|Brandon Group]] in the Dingle Peninsula are [[Ordovician]] to Late [[Carboniferous]] in age, 485 to 330 millions years ago (Ma).<ref name =WB>Williams B, 2020, The Dingle Peninsula: A Kerry Diamond, Geoexpro [https://geoexpro.com/the-dingle-peninsula-a-kerry-diamond/]</ref>
The rocks date from the Upper [[Devonian]] period (310–450 million years ago) when Ireland was in a hot equatorial setting.<ref name="jim">{{cite book | last1 = Ryan | first1 = Jim | title = Carrauntoohil and MacGillycuddy's Reeks: A Walking Guide to Ireland's Highest Mountains | publisher = Collins Press | isbn = 978-1905172337 | year = 2006 }}</ref> During this 60 million year period, Ireland was the site of a major basin, known as the Munster basin, and Cork and Kerry were effectively a large alluvial floodplain.<ref name="jim"/> Chemical oxidation stained the material with a purple–reddish colour (and green in places from chlorination), still visible today.<ref name="jim"/> There are virtually no fossils in Old Red Sandstone.<ref name="jim"/> ▼
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The composition of Old Red Sandstone is variable and contains quartz stones, mudstones, siltstones, and sandstone particles (boulders of conglomerate rock containing quartz pebbles are visible throughout the range).<ref name="jim"/> The Slieve Mish range was also subject to significant glaciation with [[cirque|corries]] (e.g. the upper lakes of the Derrymore Glen), [[U-shaped valley]]s (e.g. the Derrymore Glen and the Curraheen Glen), however the range does not have the sharp rocky [[arête]]s and ridges of the MacGillycuddy Reeks range.<ref name="jim"/>▼
The rocks in the Dinge Peninsula have an earlier, [[Silurian]], shallow marine [[facies]] and a later, [[Devonian]], continental red-bed facies. The transition between the two is [[unconformable]] or [[Fault (geology)|faulted]]. The island of [[Inishnabro]] just off the peninsula is an exception in the area in that the contact between the two facies is conformable.<ref name =WB />
The rocks are purple–red due to the oxidation of iron-rich sediments which accumulated in semi-arid climate.<ref name =WB /> In places they are green from chlorination. These colours are still visible today.<ref name="jim"/> There are virtually no fossils in Old Red Sandstone.<ref name="jim"/> The composition of Old Red Sandstone is variable. Largely fluvial [[sandstone]]s and [[conglomerate (geology)|conglomerate]]s dominate<ref name =WB /> and there are [[mudstone]]s, [[siltstone]]s. Boulders containing quartz pebbles are visible throughout the range.<ref name="jim"/>
The [[Paleozoic|Palaeozoic]] rocks of the Dinge Peninsula have been affected by deformations caused by three [[orogenies]] (mountain building events) the Early [[Caledonian orogeny|Caledonian]] (c. 470 Ma) [[Caledonian orogeny|Acadian]] (c. 400 Ma) and [[Variscan orogeny|Variscan]] (c. 318–297 Ma) orogenies. The Variscan orogeny [[tectonic uplift|uplifted]] and deformed the [[Devonian]] and Early [[Carboniferous]] rocks, tightened the [[Fold (geology)|folds]] of the Caledonian and Acadian orogenies and reactivated many of the older major [[Fault (geology)|faults]]. Very large NE-SE trending (in the west) and E-W trending (in the east) open upright folds were created in the Dinge Peninsula. The Slieve Mish [[Anticline]] in the east provides evidence of this. The [[Erosion surface|erosional]] products of this were deposited in the Munster Basin.<ref name =WB />
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== Geography ==
Overlooking [[Tralee Bay]] on the northern side and [[Dingle Bay]] on the south, the range extends for 19 kilometres from just outside Tralee in the east to the centre of the Dingle Peninsula in the west. The range is often described as the "backbone" of the Dingle Peninsula because of distribution of most of its major peaks along narrow south-west to north-east "spine" that extends to 6 kilometres at its widest part.<ref name="SAC3"/><ref name="collins"/>
The core of the range is the massif of its highest point Baurtregaum {{convert|851|m|ft}}, and the main peaks of the range sit and Baurtregaum's high grassy ridge from Baurtregaum Far NW Top {{convert|603|m|ft}}in the east, to Caherconree {{convert|835|m|ft}}, and Gearhane {{convert|792|m|ft}}, in the west.{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}
Bautregaum has two major glacial [[U-shaped valley]]s, the long 4.5-kilometre easterly Curraheen Glen (with the Curraheen River), and the shorter but deeper northerly Derrymore Glen (Derrymore River), with its three corrie lakes.<ref name="SAC3"/><ref name="collins"/>
After descending to the
==List
{{Main|Lists of mountains in Ireland}}
The following is a download from the ''[[MountainViews Online Database]]'', who list 17 identifiable Slieve Mish peaks with an elevation, or height, above 100 metres
{{legend|#cff|[[Lists of mountains and hills in the British Isles#Marilyns|Marilyn]]: Any height, and prominence over {{convert|150|m|0}}.}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left"
|+ style="text-align: left;" |Peaks of the Slieve Mish Mountain range (''[[MountainViews Online Database]]'', July 2019)
|-
!style="text-align:left"|[[Elevation|Height]]<br>Rank
!style="text-align:left"|[[Topographic prominence|Prom.]]<br>Rank
!style="text-align:left"|Name
!style="text-align:left"|Irish Name (if different)
!style="text-align:left"|Translation
!style="text-align:left"|[[Summit|Height]]<br>(m)
!style="text-align:left"|[[Topographic prominence|Prom.]]<br>(m)
!style="text-align:left"|[[Summit|Height]]<br>(ft)
!style="text-align:left"|[[Topographic prominence|Prom.]]<br>(ft)
!style="text-align:left"|[[Topographic map|Topo<br>Map]]
!style="text-align:left"|[[Ordnance Survey Ireland|OSI Grid<br>Reference]]
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|1||1||[[Baurtregaum]]||Barr Trí gCom ||Top of Three Hollows{{efn|The three hollows in question are probably the valleys of Derrymore, Derryquay and Curraheen, which cut into the sides of the mountain.<ref name="peak"/>}}|| 851 || style="background:#cff;text-align:left"|643 || 2,792 || 2,110 ||71||{{gbm4ibx|Q749076}}
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|2||4||[[Caherconree]]||Cathair Conraoi ||Cú Roí's Stone Fort{{efn|Caherconree is named after a stone fort situated two-thirds of the way up its western flank, overlooking the mountain road called Bóthar na gCloch ('road of the stones'). This is an inland promontory-fort, consisting of a natural projecting ledge surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs, the fourth side being defended by a stone wall.<ref name="peak"/>}}|| 835 || 129 || 2,740 || 423 ||71||{{gbm4ibx|Q733073}}
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|3||17||[[Baurtregaum NE Top]]||—||—|| 819 || 14 || 2,687 || 46 ||71||{{gbm4ibx|Q755081}}
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|4||16||[[Gearhane]]||An Géarán||The Fang{{efn|Between Gearhane and the summit of Caherconree are two rock features known as Finn Mac Cool's Table and Finn Mac Cool's Chair.<ref name="peak"/>}}|| 792 || 17 || 2,598 || 56 ||71||{{gbm4ibx|Q733082}}
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|5||15||[[Baurtregaum NW Top]]||—||—|| 723 || 18 || 2,372 || 59 ||71||{{gbm4ibx|Q747084}}
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|6||12||[[Baurtregaum Far NE Top]]||—||—|| 603 || 28 || 1,978 || 92 ||71||{{gbm4ibx|Q768090}}
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|7||11||[[Castle Hill, Kerry|Castle Hill]]{{efn|As this peak is rather far from any castle (at Castledrum or Castlemaine), it may be simply named from its commanding position.<ref name="peak"/>}}||—||—|| 600 || 35 || 1,969 || 115 ||71||{{gbm4ibx|Q756063}}
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|8||6||[[Caherbla]]|| Cathair Bhláth||Stone Fort of Flowers{{efn|[[An Seabhac]] reports hearing from a shanachee that the correct name was Cathair Bhláthnaide, 'Bláthnaid's stone fort'. Bláthnaid was the daughter of the king of the Isle of Man. Cú Chulainn and Cú Roí fell out over who would have her hand. See also [[Caherconree]].<ref name="peak"/>}} || 586 || 91 || 1,923 || 299 ||71||{{gbm4ibx|Q724052}}
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|9||2||[[Moanlaur]]||Móin Láir ||Middle Bog|| 566 || style="background:#cff;text-align:left"|289 || 1,857 || 948 ||71||{{gbm4ibx|Q690045}}
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|10||14||[[Knockmore, County Kerry|Knockmore]]||An Cnoc Mór||The Big Hill|| 565 || 27 || 1,854 || 89 ||71||{{gbm4ibx|Q684042}}
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|11||7||[[Barnanageehy]]||Bearna na Gaoithe||Gap of the wind{{efn|This is one of the most common names for a pass in Ireland. The name is actually marked on lower peaks to the E, and it seems likely that the gap in question is even further to the E.<ref name="peak"/>}}|| 561 || 56 || 1,841 || 184 ||71||{{gbm4ibx|Q800082}}
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|12||8||[[Beenduff]]||An Bhinn Dubh ||The Black Peak|| 515 || 40 || 1,690 || 131 ||71||{{gbm4ibx|Q677037}}
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|13||13||[[Cnoc na Stuaice]]{{efn|Also recorded as "Emlagh".<ref name="peak"/>}}|| Cnoc na Stuaice||Hill of the Peak|| 483 || 28 || 1,585 || 92 ||71||{{gbm4ibx|Q666029}}
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|14||9||[[Lack Mountain]]||Sliabh na Lice||Mountain of the Flagstone|| 465 || 40 || 1,526 || 131 ||71||{{gbm4ibx|Q706045}}
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|15||10||Knockbrack||An Cnoc Breac||The Speckled Hill|| 459 || 36 || 1,506 || 118 ||71||{{gbm4ibx|Q702051}}
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|16||5||[[Corrin (Kerry)|Corrin]]||Carraig Tomáisín||Little Thomas's Rock|| 332 || 97 || 1,089 || 318 ||71||{{gbm4ibx|Q685075}}
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|17||3||[[Knockafeehane]]||Binn an Phréacháin||Peak of the Crows|| 301 || 130 || 988 || 427 ||71||{{gbm4ibx|Q616014}}
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==See also==
{{commons category|Slieve Mish Mountains}}
*[[Brandon Group]], a mountain range in Dingle Peninsula
*[[Mountains of the Central Dingle Peninsula]], a mountain range in Dingle Peninsula
*[[Lists of mountains in Ireland]]
*[[List of mountains of the British Isles by height]]
*[[List of P600 mountains in the British Isles]]
*[[List of Marilyns in the British Isles]]
*[[List of Hewitt mountains in England, Wales and Ireland]]
==Notes==
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==References==
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[[Category:Hewitts of Ireland]]
[[Category:Mountains and hills of County Kerry]]
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