At over 3000 feet Lugnaquilla is the highest peak in which Irish mountains?
Lugnaquilla Lugnaquilla Lugnaquilla () at , is the 11th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin scale, and the 13th–highest peak on the Vandeleur-Lynam scale, and the highest mountain outside of Kerry on all scales. Lugnaquilla is the County Top for Wicklow, and the Provincial Top for Leinster. Lugnaquilla is in the Wicklow Mountains, and overlooks the Glen of Imaal to the west and Glenmalure to the east. The Geological Survey of Ireland ("GSI") describe Lugnaquilla as a "slate capped, granite rooted, relatively flat–topped mountain". Crags of dark–grey schist protrude from the upper cliff walls of Lugnaquilla's corries which are Ordovician in
Lugnaquilla Mountains". It is the 432nd–highest mountain, and 21st most prominent mountain, in Britain and Ireland, on the Simms classification. Lugnaquilla is regarded by the Scottish Mountaineering Club ("SMC") as one of 34 Furths, which is a mountain above in elevation, and meets the other SMC criteria for a Munro (e.g. "sufficient separation"), but which is outside of (or "furth") Scotland; which is why Lugnaquilla is referred to as one of the 13 Irish Munros. Irish academic Paul Tempan wrote in his 2010 "Irish Hill and Mountain Names", that the summit plateau is marked as "Percy's Table", named after an 18th–century