Mount Gabriel (Ireland)
Mount Gabriel is a mountain on the Mizen Peninsula just north of the town of Schull in West Cork, Ireland . Mount Gabriel is 407 m high, making it the largest hill south and east of Bantry Bay. A road leading to radars on the summit is open to the public.
View / location
From the summit of Mount Gabriel you can see south over Schull Harbor and Lung Island Bay. To the east and southeast are Roaring Water Bay and its many islands, also known as Carbery's Hundred Isles. To the north and west are the mountains of the Beara Peninsula and South Kerry.
The Fastnet Rock is about to see km south away and in good weather the 18th
Mining
There are traces of mining activity during the Bronze Age (around 3200 to 1500 BC) on the southern and eastern slopes of the mountain. There are 25 pits and several shafts with a length of about nine meters. Some theorists claim that these mines could be much younger than thought, many claim they were from the 19th century. At that time, stone tools were used to extract copper; previously, the stone had been heated with fire and then suddenly cooled again with water in order to be able to split the stones more easily. Mining also ensured that many people settled near the mountain.
Radomes
In the late 1970s, as part of the development of Eurocontrol (the European air traffic control system), two radomes were erected on the top of the mountain.
In 1982 the Irish National Liberation Army , an Irish Republican paramilitary group, blew up the radar domes, falsely claiming that they were being used by NATO and thus violating Irish neutrality.