Baltinglass

Maudi

Can anybody give me the normal route to take to spinians hill..in baltinglass
Went up last year but by a very long route of my own making..
Thanks

convert

Coming from Dublin, go through Whitestown cross (Glen/Donald to the left and Stratford to the right). When you go down the road a bit (literally: a dip, bridge, bend and uphill). There'll then be a left turn (for Ballinacrow) with a cottage on the left. Take the turn. You'll go up a short road. At the end, turn right. Go up that road, and at a bend (White House on the right) take the left turn. You'll go up a steep hill, and at the top at the cross roads, turn left. You're then on Spinan's Hill, with the top on your right.

Do you mind me asking if you're looking for it for a walk or for historical/archaeological reasons?

Oh, and you're still a good distance from Baltinglass!! 😝

Maudi

convert wrote: »

Coming from Dublin, go through Whitestown cross (Glen/Donald to the left and Stratford to the right). When you go down the road a bit (literally: a dip, bridge, bend and uphill). There'll then be a left turn (for Ballinacrow) with a cottage on the left. Take the turn. You'll go up a short road. At the end, turn right. Go up that road, and at a bend (White House on the right) take the left turn. You'll go up a steep hill, and at the top at the cross roads, turn left. You're then on Spinan's Hill, with the top on your right.

Do you mind me asking if you're looking for it for a walk or for historical/archaeological reasons?

Oh, and you're still a good distance from Baltinglass!! ðŸ˜

Thanks Convert.
Maybe im mistaken (i often am)
This route of yours will bring me up to the hill above baltinglass?
The hill with the tomb ruins on

convert

Would it have been Rathcoran Hill, by any chance? It's a little closer to Baltinglass than Spinan's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathcoran
http://mountainviews.ie/summit/864/

This is the basic information about Spinan's Hill: http://megalithomania.com/show/site/734/spinans_hill.htm