Keadeen Mountain

Keadeen Mountain
View from Rathdangan in south
Highest point
Elevation	653 m (2,142 ft)[1]
Prominence	334 m (1,096 ft)[1]
Listing	100 Highest Irish Mountains, Marilyn, Hewitt, Arderin, Simm, Vandeleur-Lynam
Coordinates	52°57′02″N 6°34′53″W
Naming
Native name	Céidín
English translation	flat-topped hill
Geography
Keadeen Mountain Location in Ireland
Location	County Wicklow, Ireland
Parent range	Wicklow Mountains
OSI/OSNI grid	S9539489764
Topo map	OSi Discovery 62
Geology
Mountain type(s)	Dark slate-schist, quartzite & coticule[1]

Keadeen Mountain (Irish: Céidín, meaning 'flat-topped hill')^[2] at 653 metres (2,142 ft), is the 152nd–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin scale,^[3] and the 184th–highest peak on the Vandeleur-Lynam scale.^[4][5] Keadeen is situated at the far southwestern end of the Wicklow Mountains range, separated from the large massif of Lugnaquilla on its own small isolated massif with Carrig Mountain 571 metres (1,873 ft); it overlooks the Glen of Imaal from the south.^[6]

Naming

According to Irish academic Paul Tempan, "Keadeen" is also the name of a townland in the nearby parish of Kilranelagh.^[2] In Irish the peak was sometimes called Céidín Uí Mháil in full, which was a name derived from the native group who gave their name to the nearby Glen of Imaal.^[2]

History

Dwyer–McAllister Cottage is at the northern base of Keadeen at Derrynamuck, where Michael Dwyer, the 1798 rebellion United Irishmen leader, escaped from the British soldier's siege on Sam McAllister cottage in December 1799 up the slopes of the mountain.

Bibliography

• MountainViews Online Database (Simon Stewart) (2013). A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins. Collins Books. ISBN 978-1-84889-164-7.
• Dillion, Paddy (1993). The Mountains of Ireland: A Guide to Walking the Summits. Cicerone. ISBN 978-1852841102.

See also

• Wicklow Way
• Wicklow Mountains
• Lists of mountains in Ireland
• List of mountains of the British Isles by height
• List of Marilyns in the British Isles
• List of Hewitt mountains in England, Wales and Ireland

References

1. "Keadeen Mountain". MountainViews Online Database. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
2. Paul Tempan (February 2012). "Irish Hill and Mountain Names" (PDF). MountainViews.ie.
3. Simon Stewart (October 2018). "Arderins: Irish mountains of 500+m with a prominence of 30m". MountainViews Online Database.
4. Simon Stewart (October 2018). "Vandeleur-Lynams: Irish mountains of 600+m with a prominence of 15m". MountainViews Online Database.
5. Mountainviews, (September 2013), "A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins", Collins Books, Cork, ISBN 978-1-84889-164-7
6. Dillion, Paddy (1993). The Mountains of Ireland: A Guide to Walking the Summits. Cicerone. ISBN 978-1852841102. Walk 11: Keadeen Mountain

External links

• MountainViews: The Irish Mountain Website, Keadeen Mountain
• 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