Mount Gabriel () is a mountain on the Mizen Peninsula immediately to the north of the town of Schull in West Cork,

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. Mount Gabriel is 407m high and is the highest eminence in the coastal zone south and east of Bantry Bay. A roadway serving the radar installations on the summit is open to the public. From the peak of Mount Gabriel, there are views south over Schull Harbour and Long Island Bay. To the east and southeast, the views take in Roaringwater Bay and its many islands, known as

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. North and west are the mountains of the

Beara Peninsula Beara ( ga, Béarra) or the Beara Peninsula is a peninsula on the south-west coast of Ireland, bounded between the Kenmare "river" (actually a bay) to the north side and Bantry Bay to the south. It contains two mountain ranges running down its ...

and south Kerry. Fastnet Rock is approximately 18 km to the south, and is visible in fine weather.

Mining

On the southern and eastern slopes of the mountain is evidence of

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mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic ...

. The principal ore mined was

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. Some of the archaeological items found on the mountain are now in the

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in Dublin.

Radar domes

In the late 1970s, as part of the development of

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(the European air traffic control system), two radar domes were built on the top of the mountain. In September 1982 the Irish National Liberation Army, an

Irish republican Irish republicanism ( ga, poblachtánachas Éireannach) is the political movement for the unity and independence of Ireland under a republic. Irish republicans view British rule in any part of Ireland as inherently illegitimate. The develop ...

paramilitary group, blew up the radar domes, wrongly claiming that they were being used by

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in violation of Irish neutrality.https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1983/0609/Pg011.html#Ar01103:0582BF08C2D611A2AF1472C7

References

External links

Schull's Website
schull.ie
Schull.org

goodprovenance.com
Official website — National Museum of Ireland
museum.ie

Mining

Radar domes

See also

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