Table Mountain (Wicklow)

{{about|Table Mountain in County Wicklow, Ireland||Table Mountain (disambiguation)}}

{{short description|Mountain in County Wicklow, Ireland}}

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{{Use Irish English|date=November 2020}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Table Mountain

| photo = Table Mountain Wicklow.jpg

| photo_caption = Flat summit of Table Mountain

| elevation_m = 702

| elevation_ref = {{cite web|url=http://mountainviews.ie/summit/109/|title=Table Mountain|publisher=MountainViews Online Database|accessdate=15 July 2019}}

| prominence_m = 16

| prominence_ref =

| listing = Arderin Beg, Vandeleur-Lynam

| location = County Wicklow, Ireland

| range = Wicklow Mountains

| coordinates = {{coord|53.01716|N|6.481634|W|type:mountain_scale:30000|display=inline,title}}

| topo = OSi Discovery 56

| map = island of Ireland

| map_relief = yes

| map_caption = Location in Ireland

| type = Granite with microcline phenocrysts

| grid_ref_Ireland = T019972 | grid_ref_Ireland_ref=

| easiest_route =

}}

Table Mountain is a {{convert|702|m|ft|adj=on}} peak in the southern section of the Wicklow Mountains range in Ireland. With a prominence of only {{convert|16|m|ft}}, it is only listed in a few of the recognised categories of mountains in Ireland; it is the 110th–highest peak on the Vandeleur-Lynam Irish scale.{{cite web|url=https://mountainviews.ie/lists/vandeleur-lynam/?PHPSESSID=6lpes93lcdlq890dprmqqu4dn6|title=Vandeleur-Lynams: Irish mountains of 600+m with a prominence of 15m|publisher=MountainViews Online Database|author=Simon Stewart|date=October 2018}}Mountainviews, (September 2013), "A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins", Collins Books, Cork, {{ISBN|978-1-84889-164-7}} Table Mountain is at the apex of a horseshoe-shaped "boggy" massif with its larger neighbours, Camenabologue {{convert|758|m|ft}} and Conavalla {{convert|734|m|ft}} that sit at the head of the Glenmalure valley; all three peaks lie close to the "central spine" of the range as it runs from Kippure in the north, to Lugnaquillia in the south.{{cite book | last1 = Dillion | first1 = Paddy | title = The Mountains of Ireland: A Guide to Walking the Summits | publisher = Cicerone | isbn = 978-1852841102 | year = 1993 | quote=Walk 10: Ballineddan Mountain, Slievemaan, Lugnaquillia, Camenabologue East Top, Camenabologue, Table Mountain, Lobawn}} There is no recorded Irish language name for Table Mountain, and it has no connection with Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa.{{cite web|url= http://www.mountaineering.ie/_files/Paul%20Tempan%20Irish%20Mountain%20Placenames%20-%20Feb%202012.pdf|title=Irish Hill and Mountain Names|publisher=MountainViews.ie|author=Paul Tempan|date=February 2012}}

Plane crash

On the afternoon of 7 March 1957, between 12:30 and 12:45pm, a Percival Provost training plane crashed into the slopes of Table Mountain in thick fog resulting in the death of its pilot, an Irish Air Corps lieutenant.{{Cite news |last=(staff writer) |date=1957-03-08|title=Air Corps Pilot Dies in Plane Crash|website=The Irish Times|language=en}} The pilot was 21-year-old Patrick L. O'Connor, of Clooneyquin, Castlerea, County Roscommon. The plane had left Baldonnel Aerodrome, Dublin at 11:15am that morning for an intended training flight over the counties of Offaly and Wicklow, but was believed to have lost contact with the control tower shortly after departure. The explosion was heard by forestry workers on nearby Conavalla Mountain who rushed to assist and were able to raise the alarm. Parts of the aircraft, which were scattered over an area of 80 yards, still remained on the slopes of the mountain as of 2010.{{cite web|title=Table Mountain (Sliabh an Tábla)|url=https://mountainviews.ie/summit/109/|publisher=mountainviews.ie|access-date=2023-03-24}}

Bibliography

  • {{cite book | last1 = Fairbairn | first1 = Helen | title = Dublin & Wicklow: A Walking Guide | publisher = Collins Press | isbn = 978-1848892019 | year = 2014}}
  • {{cite book| author=MountainViews Online Database (Simon Stewart)|year=2013 | title=A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins |publisher=Collins Books | isbn=978-1-84889-164-7}}
  • {{cite book | last1 = Dillion | first1 = Paddy | title = The Mountains of Ireland: A Guide to Walking the Summits | publisher = Cicerone | isbn = 978-1852841102 | year = 1993 }}

See also

References

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