The Mountain Print
Carrauntoohil, in its own contour lines.
The highest mountain in Ireland, drawn from its own terrain: Carrauntoohil at the hub of the Reeks, Beenkeragh and Caher on ridges of their own, the lakes of the Hag's Glen below, and the summit marked at 1,039 metres.
From £19.95 unframed, £59.95 framed · No data needed.
What the print holds
Carrauntoohil on paper
Carrauntoohil is the meeting point of three ridges, and on paper it looks like one. The summit sits at the centre of the sheet where three arms of crowded lines join: north, the Beenkeragh Ridge runs out to Beenkeragh, the second-highest summit in Ireland; west, the Caher Ridge leads to Caher, the third; and east, the main ridge of the Reeks carries on towards Cnoc na Toinne and Cnoc na Péiste.
Between those ridges the ground falls into deep corries. North-east of the summit the Hag's Glen holds two small lakes, Lough Callee and Lough Gouragh, which appear as flat shapes in a bowl of close lines at the foot of the mountain's steepest ground. West, the Coomloughra valley is a second bowl of the same kind on the other side of the Caher Ridge. To the south the lines drop steeply towards the valley of Cummeenduff, and beyond it the neat, round rings of Broaghnabinnia stand at the bottom of the frame as a mountain of their own.
The interval here is twenty metres, the heavy lines a hundred apart. The rings around the summit are tight on the northern and eastern sides, above the glen, and looser to the south-west, and the ridges between them are drawn as narrow strips where the lines from either side come close without touching — the arêtes the Reeks are known for.
The elevation data reads the top a little lower than the survey, which is usual for a summit this sharp. The print carries the surveyed height, 1,038.6 metres, rounded to the metre.
What to frame
Each opens the Studio already framed about the summit. Widen it, close in, or drag the print to move it; the contour interval follows the ground in the frame.
Three ways to draw Carrauntoohil
The same terrain each time, and every palette in the Studio on top of it.
How it works
From the Studio to your wall in three steps.
Step 01
Choose your subject
Connect Strava in one tap for a race, a ride or a whole year. Or search for a place, type a postcode for your street on the old Ordnance Survey, or add a photograph — none of those needs an account.
Step 02
Choose your style
Start from a finished design and make it yours: the words, the colours, the size. Twenty-three styles for your own miles, four treatments for a place, six layouts for a photograph, and the old survey as drawn or in your colours.
Step 03
We print and frame it
Pick a frame, check out, and it is printed to order on fine-art paper, framed by hand and posted to you, tracked.
Carrauntoohil print: the questions
Where is the Devil's Ladder?
It is the steep gully at the head of the Hag's Glen, south-east of the summit, where the ground rises to the col between Carrauntoohil and Cnoc na Toinne. It shows as a notch in the crowded lines there, clearest in the three-kilometre frame.
Why 1,039 metres?
The surveyed height is 1,038.6 metres, and the print rounds every height to the nearest metre. It is the only summit in Ireland above 1,030 metres.
Can I mark Cronin's Yard?
Add it as a named point and it is drawn where it stands at the mouth of the glen. The print draws the ground only, not paths, car parks or buildings.
Where do the contours come from?
From public elevation data — the Terrain Tiles Mapzen built and AWS Open Data hosts, which join SRTM and national terrain models — traced into lines by the Studio as you frame the print, about sixty of them from the lowest ground in the frame to the highest. Nothing is drawn by hand. The height beside the summit is Carrauntoohil’s surveyed one, not a figure read off the grid.
Can I print a hill that is not on this list?
Yes. Search the Studio for any hill by name and it is drawn the same way, framed with the ground around it. The print then carries its name and coordinates but no height: a height on a poster should be the surveyed figure, and the grid is too coarse to supply one.
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Carrauntoohil, on the wall.
Compose it free in the Studio: the frame, the treatment, the palette and your own words beneath. Order it when it is the mountain you mean.
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