Muckish

There's different distances, but he's taking on the 55 kilometres.

And if any of our listeners kind of know the area, it starts around the Poison Glen on the old kind of, Goes around the lake at the Guinness estate and then goes up to a, goes up Mount Erie, not Mount Erie, goes up Muckish Mountain, then comes back around Erie.

It's pretty epic.

And I was asking about fueling.

From the top of Gainmore a good view is obtained of the coast from Hornhead around to Inishawn Peninsula and from its hills a fine sweep inland to Errigal Mountain.

At Downing's Bay there is one of the finest views of Donegal looking up and down Sheephaven, the woods of Ards and the tower of Doe Castle backed up in the distance by the ponderous mass of Muckish.

Within a short distance of the hotel there are three caves which can be entered, one from the brow of the hill and the others at low water.

Near it also is Mulroy House, the residence of the Countess of Leitrim.

The inhabitants have paid no rents since the loss of the Wasp, which was sent to enforce payment or evict the tenants.

St. Columba, the patron saint of the place, is reported to have landed here in a curagh.

From Falcarragh you get a fine view of Muckish, with its twenty-two hundred feet of altitude.

While not the highest mountain in the Donegal highlands, Muckish is longer and of greater bulk than any of its rivals, and is also more imposing.