Carrauntoohil

Carrauntoohil is the highest peak on the island of Ireland. Located in County Kerry, it is 1038m high and is the central peak of the Macgillycuddy's Reeks range. The ridge northward leads to Ireland's second-highest peak, Beenkeragh (1,010 m), while the ridge westward leads to the third-highest peak, Caher (1,001 m). Carrauntoohil overlooks three bowl-shaped valleys, each with its own lakes. To the east is Hag's Glen or Coomcallee (Com Caillí, "hollow of the Cailleach"), to the west is Coomloughra (Com Luachra, "hollow of the rushes") and to the south is Curragh More (Currach Mór, "great marsh").A wooden cross was erected on the summit, a privately owned commonage in the 1950s by the local community, it was replaced by a 5m tall steel cross in 1976. In 2014, it was cut down by criminals in an apparent anti-religious attack, but was re-erected shortly after.Carrauntoohil is classed as a Furth by the Scottish Mountaineering Club, i.e. a mountain greater than three thousand feet high that is outside (or furth of) Scotland, which is why it is sometimes referred to as one of the Irish Munros.