The Stack's Mountains are a mountain range about seven kilometres northeast of

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, along the N69 road in

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. The highest peak in the range is Crusline, which is 355 metres high. Nearby summits include Ballincollig Hill (353 m), Beennageeha Mountain (321 m), and Stack's Mountain ( ga, Cnoc an Stacaigh; 323 m).Forest Management Plan: Stack Mountains Forest: Forest Code: KY03
Coillte. Retrieved: 2013-03-19.

Landscape and nature

The range is characterised by moorland and limited open pasture, with 4,700 hectares of young coniferous forest plantations of mainly Sitka spruce – with Japanese larch, pines, firs and cedars, along with some broadleaved trees such as birch, ash, alder, oak, willow, sycamore, and holly – most managed by the forest management company,

Coillte Coillte (; meaning "forests"/"woods") is a state-owned commercial forestry business in Ireland based in Newtownmountkennedy. Coillte manage approximately 7% of the country’s land, and operates three businesses - their core forestry business, ...

.Landscape Character Assessment prepared for the Renewable Energy Strategy 2012 & Adopted/Proposed Archaeological Landscapes
Kerry County Council Planning Policy Unit, p. A-109. November 2012. The local conifer forests, open heather moors, and grassland are habitats for fauna such as the hen harrier, Irish hare, red fox, red grouse, snipe, cuckoo, and meadow pipit. The neighbouring Glanaruddery Mountains to the southeast are divided from the Stack's Mountains by the valley of the Smearlagh River.Explanations to Accompany Sheet 162 of the Maps of the Geological Survey of Ireland
Geological Survey (1859), p. 5. Retrieved: 2013-03-20.

Energy resources

The peat company,

Bord na Móna Bord na Móna (; English: "The Peat Board"), is a semi-state company in Ireland, created in 1946 by the Turf Development Act 1946. The company began developing the peatlands of Ireland with the aim to provide economic benefit for Irish Midland ...

, extracted about 250,000 tons of turf from Lyracrumpane Bog between 1938 and 1963. Nowadays, turf is harvested by local people under

turbary Turbary is the ancient right to cut turf, or peat, for fuel on a particular area of bog. The word may also be used to describe the associated piece of bog or peatland and, by extension, the material extracted from the turbary. Turbary rights, whi ...

arrangements, using hopper machines instead of the traditional

slane Slane () is a village in County Meath, in Ireland. The village stands on a steep hillside on the left bank of the River Boyne at the intersection of the N2 road (Ireland), N2 (Dublin to Monaghan road) and the N51 road (Ireland), N51 (Drogheda ...

. There are also

wind farms Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens of minutes, to local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting a few h ...

on Stack's Mountain and Ballincollig Hill.

Recreation

The Lyracrumpane Development Association in cooperation with Coillte have created the four-mile "Mass Path and River Walk" along the banks of the Smearlagh River, and the ten mile "Fionn MacCumhaill" trek through open countryside and Coillte forest plantations.Lyreacrompane
Sliabh Luachra Rural Development Group, September 2001. The seven-mile Smearlagh River, which is a tributary of the

River Feale Beach seine fishing for salmon in River Feale near by town Ballybunion, year 1975. The River Feale (''An Fhéil'' or ''Abhainn na Féile'' in Irish) rises near Rockchapel in the Mullaghareirk Mountains of County Cork in the southwest of Irel ...

, is formed in the Stack's Mountains and Glanaruddery Mountains from the Broghane Stream, Dromaddamore River, Glashoreag River, and Lyracrumpane River. The Smearlagh meets the Feale at Inchymagilleragh, three miles east of

Listowel Listowel ( ; , IPA: �lʲɪsˠˈt̪ˠuəhəlʲ is a heritage market town in County Kerry, Ireland. It is on the River Feale, from the county town, Tralee. The town of Listowel had a population of 4,820 according to the CSO Census 2016. Desc ...

, where the confluence is known as "The Joinings". The Smearlagh is a swift river that provides good salmon and sea trout fishing.Rivers of Ireland: A Flyfisher's Guide
Peter O'Reilly. Merlin Unwin Books (2002), p. 269. .

References

External links

Ballincollig Hill wind farm
in Google Street View

Sliabh Luachra Rural Development Group

at "1st Stop County Kerry" {{Mountains and hills of Munster Mountains and hills of County Kerry