page_title: Galtymore
section_title: Summit
hierarchical_section_title: Galtymore / Summit
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of the iron white cross at the summit of Galtymore, Galtee Mountains, Limerick/Tipperary, Ireland
context_page_description: Galtymore or Galteemore, at 917.9 metres, is one of Ireland's highest mountains being the 12th-highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin list, and the 14th-highest peak on the Vandeleur-Lynam list. Galtymore has the 4th-highest topographic prominence of any peak in Ireland, which classifies Galtymore as a P600, or "major mountain". It is also one of the 13 Irish Munros.
  Galtymore is the highest of the Galty Mountains, or Galtee Mountains, a 30-kilometre sandstone and shale mountain range with 24 peaks above 100 metres, which runs east-west between counties Tipperary and Limerick; Galtymore is the highest point of both counties. The mountain is accessed by hillwalkers via the 3–4 hour Black Road Route, but is also summited as part of the longer 5–6 hour Circuit of Glencushnabinnia, and the at least 10–hour east-to-west crossing of the entire range, called the Galtee Crossing, which is climbed annually in the Galtee Challenge.
  The mountain and its deep corrie lakes are associated with various Irish folklore tales regarding Saint Patrick and serpents.
context_section_description: Galtymore's summit is described a large concave plateau separated by two peaks.  The plateau consists of Old Red Sandstone and is known as Dawson's Table after the historical landowners, the Dawson-Massey family.  This is similar to Percy's Table on the summit of Lugnaquilla, the highest mountain in County Wicklow and Leinster.  There is a cairn on top of each peak and the eastern one marks the true summit of Galtymore. These twin summits give Galtymore a distinctive profile from a distance.  The summit of Galtymore marks the boundary of Limerick and Tipperary.
  In 1975, a 7-foot (2.1 m) white iron cross was erected on the north edge of Dawson's Table by Tipperary local Ted Kavanagh.  The cross is situated a few metres away from the eastern summit cairn and looks into the glen of Aherlow.  It is kept white by being painted every year.
  To the west of the summit of Galtymore lies a 3.5-kilometre (2.2 mi) long dry stone wall known as the Galtee Wall, that was built in 1878 to separate the Dawson-Massey Estate in the north, from the Galtee Castle Estate in the south.  It is recorded that it took 30–40 men more than 4 years to complete the wall, and that the reason for its construction was to give employment to local small farmers during a period of economic depression (hence why is it also called a famine wall).  The Galtee Wall runs from below the west summit of Galtymore, across the top of Slievecushnabinnia, the top of Carrignabinnia, and on to the summit of Lyracappul, the second-highest peak in the Galtees.
caption: White iron cross on Dawson's Table, Galtymore summit
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