Mount Brandon

View of Mount Brandon

Photograph of Mount Brandon,Ireland's second highest mountain. Mount Brandon is named after the patron saint of Co.Kerry, Brendan and is a mountain of pilgrimage.

Courtesy of Kevin Farnan, Tralee Mountaineering Club.

View of Mount Brandon
Courtesy of Kevin Farnan, Tralee Mountaineering Club.

View of Mount Brandon

Photograph of Mount Brandon,Ireland's second highest mountain. Mount Brandon is named after the patron saint of Co.Kerry, Brendan and is a mountain of pilgrimage.

Courtesy of Kevin Farnan, Tralee Mountaineering Club.

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Mount Brandon, Kerry and Ireland's second highest peakat 3127 feet. Mount Brandon's corries and crags are linked with the sea and the islands and with one of the richest areas in the country of early beehive huts and Ogham stones.

 

In recent times there has been a revival of Brandon as a mountain of pilgrimage. The quickest way up Mount Brandon is by the pilgrim track "The Saints Road". As one climbs the view widens to give a vista of the Dingle Peninsula and the Blasket Islands with the Macgillycuddy Reeks rising across the sea to the south.

 

Mount Brandon is closely associated with St Brendan,Kerry's patron saint and is known as St.Brendan's Mountain, Cnoc Brennain in Irish