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The Bones

Mountain in Kerry, Ireland

Field	Value
name	The Bones
other_name	*Na Cnámha*
photo	Carrauntoohil and the Beenkeragh Ridge (The Bones) and Caher Ridge (Caher East Top, Caher West Top).jpg
photo_caption	The Bones (centre, in green) on the Beenkeragh Ridge; Carrauntoohil is back left. The large scree slope into the lake is Brother O'Shea's Gully.
photo_size	240px
elevation_m	957
elevation_ref
prominence_m	37
prominence_ref
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	V800846
topo	OSI Discovery 78
type	Purple sandstone & siltstone Bedrock

The Bones (), at 957 m high, is the seventh-highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin list, or the eighth-highest according to the Vandeleur-Lynam list. It is part of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks in County Kerry, and is a small sharp peak on the dramatic Beenkeragh Ridge, and is sometimes mistaken with The Bone, the north-east spur of Maolán Buí, which descends into the Hag's Glen.

Geography

The Bones is the highest point on a narrow rocky arête called the Beenkeragh Ridge, situated between Carrauntoohil 1038 m (Ireland's highest peak), and Beenkeragh 1008 m (Ireland's second-highest peak), in the MacGillycuddy's Reeks range in County Kerry. The Beenkeragh Ridge is considered as "intimidating hill-walking conditions", along with the nearby The Big Gun ridge, and is often climbed as part of the Coomloughra Horseshoe.

The Bones is often confused with The Bone, the north-west spur of the nearby Maolan Bui 973 m, MountainViews Online Database reported that to avoid confusion in rescue situations, the Kerry Mountain Rescue ("KMR"), and the Ordnance Survey Ireland ("OSI") advocated for the official name of The Bones to become Na Cnámha on OSI maps.

Beenkeragh (l), The Bones (m), and Carrauntoohil (r) from Caher

The Bones is the 321st-highest mountain peak in Britain and Ireland on the Simm classification. The Bones 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 The Bones is sometimes referred to as one of the 13 Irish Munros. The Bones' prominence qualifies it to meet the Arderin classification, and the British Isles Simm and Hewitt classifications. The Bones is not in the MountainViews Online Database, 100 Highest Irish Mountains, as the prominence threshold is over 100 m.

References

[http://mountainviews.ie/summit/7/ ''The Bones''] at mountainviews.ie. Accessed on 3 Feb 2013.
Tempan, Paul. (February 2012). "Irish Hill and Mountain Names". MountainViews.ie.
(15 December 2016). "THE COOMLOUGHRA HORSESHOE: THE BEENKERAGH RIDGE AND THE BONES PEAK". Aidan McGlynn.
O'Dwyer, John. (6 June 2015). "Walks: The Big Gun is a blast on the Reeks Ridge, Co Kerry". [[Irish Times]].
Stewart, Simon. (2018). "The Bones". [[MountainViews Online Database]].
(2018). "The Database of British and Irish Hills". [[Database of British and Irish Hills]].
[http://www.smc.org.uk/Hillwalking/HillKeyFacts.php ''Mountains – Key Facts. The Munros, Corbetts, Grahams, Donalds & Furths''] {{Webarchive. link. (22 August 2012 at www.smc.org.uk. Accessed on 5 Feb 2013.)

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