Arderin () is a mountain on the border between
Laois and
Offaly
County Offaly (; ga, Contae Uíbh Fhailí) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster. It is named after the Ancient Ireland ...
in
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
. With a height of 527 metres (1,729 ft) it is the highest point in the
Slieve Bloom Mountains, and is the
highest point in both
County Laois and
County Offaly.
An
Arderin is also a descriptive word for a specific category of Irish mountains in the series of lists maintained by Irish mountain database,
MountainViews; those over 500m with a
prominence of at least 30m.
[ This list, along with other complementary ones, has been published in book form by Collins Press.][Mountainviews, (2013), "A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins", Collins Books, Cork, ] Mountainviews.ie classifies a mountain as being above 500m, but also maintains a number of lists of hills below this threshold.[
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See also
*Lists of mountains in Ireland
In these lists of mountains in Ireland, those within Northern Ireland, or on the Republic of Ireland – United Kingdom border, are marked with an asterisk, while the rest are within the Republic of Ireland. Where mountains are ranked by heigh ...
* List of Irish counties by highest point
* List of mountains of the British Isles by height
* List of Marilyns in the British Isles
References
Marilyns of Ireland
Mountains and hills of County Offaly
Mountains and hills of County Laois
Highest points of Irish counties
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