Last updated 7 May 2022
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This Register records the names of those walkers who have completed all the 2,000ft (610m) hills in Ireland (Southern and Northern). The list represents quite a major challenge. Some are distant from any road. Although none requires specific climbing skills, some involve steep (and often loose) slopes and require excellent navigational ability.
Claimants must state the list used for their completion. The following published lists are acceptable:
Vandeleur & Lynam (1950s)
Wall (1980s)
Dillon (1992)
Lynam (1990)
Clements (1997)
Edmondson (2005)
www.mountainviews.ie will help you find the hills, but does not focus on the 2000ft (610m) line, but instead the Vandeleur & Lynam list of 600 metres plus which gives a list of over 273 (more than you need for this register). They have produced a book (see below) which will help you pick out a list of the hills over 610 metres.
As completion of the Irish 2000ft Hills requires a trip over the water for many of us, Progress Reports are published in each Hillwalkers' Register Annual Report. If you would like to update us, just email hillwalker@ldwa.org.uk giving details of the number climbed during the year, and your current total. Giving both numbers helps the recorder be accurate.
You can link to the Hillwalkers' Register Claim Form here.
| VANDELEUR & LYNAM: | C.R.P. Vandeleur & J. Lynam (1950s). No further details available. |
| WALL: | A list of the 2000 ft mountains of Ireland was published in Mountaineering in Ireland by C.W. Wall (Claude Wall). The book was published in 1976 by FMCI (Federation of Mountaineering Clubs of Ireland). |
| DILLON: | The Mountains of Ireland by Paddy Dillon (1992) Cicerone Press. Abbreviated "Dillon (I)". |
| LYNAM: | "2000 ft List" by Joss Lynam published in "Irish Mountain Log" in the early 1990s. The whole list was not published on one occasion, but in a series of parts in the magazine, over a period of time. It is an updated version of Vandeleur & Lynam (see above), making use of the far more accurate maps available in the 1990s. |
| CLEMENTS: | The Hewitts and Marilyns of Ireland by E.D. "Clem" Clements TACit Press. (1997). Irish County Tops are included. |
| MOUNTAIN VIEWS: | A Hillwalking Resource for Ireland. Includes a list of the 600m hills of Ireland, most of which are above 2000ft. The best up-to-date list. |
| A guide to Ireland’s Mountain Summits – The Vandeleur-Lynams and The Arderins (2013) The Collins Press ISBN 9781848 891647 |
| No. | Name |
Sex | List(s) | Last Summit | Rnds | First Finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen Murphy | M | Private List | 1 | 1978 | |
| 2 | Paddy Dillon | M | Dillon (I) | 1 | 13 Sep 1991 | |
| 3 | Denis Cullen | M | Dillon (I), Lynam | Shanlieve | 1 | 23 Oct 1993 |
| 4 | Uinseann Maceoin | M | Private List | 1 | 1995 | |
| 5 | Iain Thow | M | Dillon (I), Lynam, Private List | Slievenamon | 1 | 30 Jun 1999 |
| 6 | Dave Watson | M | Dillon (I), Wall | Masatiompan | 1 | 18 Aug 1999 |
| 7 | Jason Falconer | M | Clem, Dillon (I) | Slievekimalta | 1 | 10 Sep 1999 |
| 8 | Bob Garrett | M | Clem, Dillon (I) | Letterbreckaun | 1 | 16 Apr 2004 |
| 9 | David Richard Beresford | M | Dillon (I) | Slieve Donard | 1 | 10 Jul 2004 |
| 10 | Rob Woodall | M | Clem, Dillon (I) | Eagle Mountain | 1 | 8 May 2005 |
| 11 | George Edward Ross | M | Lynam | Baurtregaum | 1 | 24 May 2005 |
| 12 | Adrian A Hendroff | M | Dillon (I) | Croaghgorm | 1 | 26 Nov 2006 |
| 13 | Ken Whyte | M | Clem | Knockowen | 1 | 14 May 2008 |
| 14 | Francis Shaw | M | Dillon (I) | Masatiompan | 1 | 20 Aug 2009 |
| 15 | Kevin Dockery | M | Dillon (I) | Carrauntoohil | 1 | 19 Sep 2009 |
| 16 | Bernard P Mahon | M | Dillon (I) | The Paps (East Top) | 1 | 22 May 2010 |
| 17 | Michael Earnshaw | M | Clem, Dillon (I) | Hungry Hill | 1 | 16 Sep 2012 |
| 18 | Tim Barnes | M | Dillon (I) | Conavalla | 1 | 5 Apr 2013 |
| 19 | Alan Castle | M | Dillon (I) | Seefin | 1 | 24 Jun 2014 |
| 20 | James Forrest | M | Lynam | Knocknadobar | 1 | 3 Oct 2018 |
| 21 | Christine Gordon | F | Dillon (I) | Slieve Snaght, Derryveagh | 1 | 20 May 2019 |
| 22 | Fergal Hingerty | M | DoBIH | Coombane | 1 | 16 May 2021 |
| 23 | Danny Devlin | M | Dillon (I) | Errigal | 1 | 31 Jul 2022 |
Abbreviations
| Dillon (I): | Mountains of Ireland (Cicerone 1992) |
| Clements: | TACit Press (1997) |
| Wall: | FMCI (1976) |
| Lynam: | Joss Lynam Internet list |
