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Maolán Buí

Mountain in Kerry, Ireland

Field	Value
name	Maolán Buí
other_name	Bearna Rua
photo	Maolan Bui from Cnoc an Chuillinn.jpg
photo_caption	Maolán Buí photographed from the summit of Cnoc an Chuillinn, with Cnoc an Chullinn East Top in the foreground
photo_size	240px
elevation	973 m
prominence	38 m
location	County Kerry, Ireland
range	MacGillycuddy's Reeks
listing	Furth, Hewitt, Arderin, Simm, Vandeleur-Lynam
map	island of Ireland
map_caption	Ireland
label_position	right
map_size	240
coordinates
grid_ref_Ireland	V832838
topo	OSI Discovery 78
type	Well-bedded grey sandstone Bedrock

Maolán Buí (Irish for "yellow/golden round knoll"), also known by the name Bearna Rua, at 973 m high, is the fifth-highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin list, or the sixth-highest peak in Ireland according to the Vandeleur-Lynam list. Maolán Buí is also known for its narrow north-west spur, called The Bone. It is part of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks in County Kerry.

Geography

Looking down the narrow ridge of ''The Bone'' and into the ''Hag's Glen''; as seen from the top of Maolan Bui

Maolán Buí is in the eastern part of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks in County Kerry, Ireland's highest mountain range. The peak lies on a ridge between Cnoc na Péiste 988 m (to the northeast) and Cnoc an Chuillinn 958 m (to the southwest), which are themselves part of the larger eastern ridge of the Reeks, which includes The Big Gun 939 m and finishes at its far eastern end with Cruach Mhór 932 m.

The BoneA narrow north-west spur of Maolán Buí called The Bone, not to be confused with the nearby peak that sits on the Beenkeragh Ridge, The Bones 957 m, is regarded as a safe escape route from the eastern section of the main MacGillycuddy's Reeks ridge, down into the Hag's Glen and out through Cronin's Yard.

Maolán Buí is the 278th-highest mountain in Britain and Ireland on the Simm classification. It is regarded by the Scottish Mountaineering Club ("SMC") as one of 34 Furths, which is a mountain above 3000 ft in elevation, and meets the other SMC criteria for a Munro (e.g. "sufficient separation"), but which is outside of (or furth) Scotland; which is why Maolán Buí is sometimes referred to as one of the 13 Irish Munros.

Maolán Buí's prominence qualifies it to meet the Arderin classification, and the British Isles Simm and Hewitt classifications. Maolán Buí does not appear in the MountainViews Online Database, 100 Highest Irish Mountains, as the prominence threshold is over 100 m.

References

[http://mountainviews.ie/summit/6/ ''Maolán B''uí] at mountainviews.ie. Accessed on 5 Feb 2013.
Tempan, Paul. (February 2012). "Irish Hill and Mountain Names". MountainViews.ie.
(2006). "Carrauntoohil and MacGillycuddy's Reeks: A Walking Guide to Ireland's Highest Mountains". Collins Press.
Dillon, Paddy. (1998). "Exploring the South of Ireland". [[Ward Lock]].
[http://www.smc.org.uk/Hillwalking/HillKeyFacts.php ''Mountains – Key Facts. The Munros, Corbetts, Grahams, Donalds & Furths''] {{Webarchive. link. (2012-08-22 at www.smc.org.uk. Accessed on 5 Feb 2013.)
"Hill Lists: Furths". [[Scottish Mountaineering Club]].
(2018). "The Database of British and Irish Hills". [[Database of British and Irish Hills]].
Mountainviews, (September 2013), "A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins", Collins Books, Cork, {{ISBN. 978-1-84889-164-7

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