Mount Hillary

Mount Hillary (Irish: Mullach Allaíre) is a mountain located in north County Cork. It is 391m high.

Mount Hillary
Mullach Allaíre
Highest point
Elevation391 m (1,283 ft) [1]
Prominence176 m (577 ft) [1]
ListingMarilyn
Coordinates52°07′N 8°50′W 
Naming
Language of nameIrish
Geography
LocationCounty Cork, Republic of Ireland
Parent rangeBoggeragh Mountains
OSI/OSNI gridW425956

Name

The name Mount Hillary has nothing to do with the forename or surname Hillary. Instead it means 'summit of the partial deafness or echo'. It is also called "Cnoc an Fholair" (Hill of the Eagle) locally.

Transmitter

Mount Hillary is home to the main North Cork transmitter for local services. Red FM's main North Cork transmitter is located near Mallow at Corran Mountain. The multi-city station 4FM's transmitter is located at Bweeng Mountain, 4 km away.

Frequency kW Service
96.1 MHz 0.5 96FM
103.7 MHz 1.25 C103 (North)
gollark: Human rights exist only in the minds of humans. Eliminate everyone who knows about them and they're gone.
gollark: You might be able to just approximate the humans, like in statistical mechanics.
gollark: Another angle might be high fidelity simulations of societies, but that has ethical issues too, and practical ones (simulating humans well enough is probably hard?).
gollark: The issue with stuff like having volunteers only and having a contingency government is that it'd shift the mindset of people there and may invalidate the results.
gollark: I meant there are tons of confounding things with trying to infer the effect of policies from real countries.

References
  1. Boggeragh Mountains Area - Mount Hillary Hill , MountainViews.ie
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