Topped Mountain

Chambered Cairn
H312458

Also known as:

Mullyknock and Toppit Mountain

Nearest town:

Swanlinbar (22km SW)

OS reference:

H312458

OS sheet:

Latitude:

54° 21' 35.33 N

Longitude:

7° 31' 12.06 W

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Images (4)
Fieldnotes (1)

Images

Image of Topped Mountain (Chambered Cairn) by ryaner

From an outcrop to the north-west of the cairn. What’s left is 3 metres tall but, guesstimating, I’d say was once 5 metres.

Image credit: ryaner

ryaner Jul 5, 2021

North-west on the gouged out cairn towards the Bluestacks in Donegal.

Image credit: ryaner

ryaner Jul 5, 2021

On top of the robbed out cairn south towards Toppedmountain Lough and Cloghtogle.

Image credit: ryaner

ryaner Jul 5, 2021

As you approach the summit from the path.

Image credit: ryaner

ryaner Jul 5, 2021

Articles

Topped Mountain

Chambered Cairn

ryaner Jul 21, 2021

The supposed focal point of many monuments in the area, this is a massive cairn over 30 metres in diameter and over 3 metres tall. It may have been taller pre-excavation in 1897 when a bronze age secondary cist burial was found.

There’s a car-park to the peak’s south-east beside Toppedmountain Lake. The climb is brief but steep along a maintained track. The cairn sits at the southern edge of the domed peak of the mountain. The views all around are magnificent and this seems to be a popular spot given the erosion on the monument, the track seeming to continue right on to its top.

We spent a while here on what was a warm and low-cloud, misty day, exploring the various rock outcrops. Views east into South Tyrone were best, the view to the Erne basin obscured by haze.