Seefin and Coumaraglin, Waterford, Comeragh Mountains, Ireland (Hewitts).

Seefin and Coumaraglin, Waterford, Comeragh Mountains, Ireland (Hewitts).
I’m keeping these summaries short as I’m on a two month tour of Ireland and there’s a lot of hills to hike and therefore lots of entries. All mapping used are view ranger digital OS 1:50 or 1:25. You will get the best results by uploading my wikiloc gpx giles into this mapping software.
Parking for this route is outside a forestry gate at the start of the route. Enough room for 1-2 vehicles at the most. The route being just north of Kilbrien Upper ‘village.’ Basically to get to Seefin just head north east up the forest ty track and don’t stop until you get to the top. In all honesty that’s about it. You come out of the forest after 2ks but you still have the forest on your right for another km. As soon as the forest finishes you have another km to the top. Here will be a very sickly trig point that has fallen over and a concrete building. The latter being big enough to take shelter inside if you undo the ‘electric cable’ that keeps it closed. Inside is messy but it provided me much needed shelter on a windy rainy first half of the day.
Anyway the next leg to Coumaraglin started off equally as windy and rainy with no vis. However if you head SE there is an obvious trail and an even more obvious fence to handrail. The next 1.5km’s take you gradually and then steeply down to a whitewashed standing stone. By this time the weather had gone from one extreme to the other and it was getting brighter.You will have to excuse my gps track at this point from Seefin to here as I inadvertently paused it so on resuming it resorted to a straight line recording for this stage. Anyway onwards and upwards gradually uphill for another km to Coumaraglin. Now I walked on the right of the fence line and walked to some sort of scaffold masted monstrosity of a tower...this is not the summit! My Irish OS digital map shows it further back on the other side of the fence but the weather was not good and I was happy enough and set off for home. I went back down to the standing stone and headed west and downhill back to the road some 3 km’s away. Skirt the fields ahead of you in doing so as there are no trespassing signs. Another km and I was back at the start. All in all it was 11.5km in 2hr 45min with 630m of ascent.