The Twelve Bens or Twelve Pins, also called the Benna Beola[2] (Irish: Na Beanna Beola, meaning 'the peaks of Beola'),[a] is a mountain range of mostly sharp-peaked quartzite summits and ridges in the Connemara National Park[b] in County Galway, in the west of Ireland.[4] The widest definition of the range includes the Garraun Complex to the north as well as several isolated peaks to the west, and is designated a 16,163-hectare (39,940-acre) Special Area of Conservation.[5]
The highest point is Benbaun at 729 metres (2,392 ft).[6] The range is a popular location for hill-walking activities with the 16–kilometre 8–9 hour Glencoaghan Horseshoe, considered one of the best ridge-walks in Ireland.[7][6] Topographically, the range is partnered with the Maumturks range to the east of the Inagh valley (a Western Way route);[6] and both share a common geology being largely composed of metamorphic marine rocks, being predominantly resistant quartzite but with deposits of schists in the valleys (known as Connemara Dalradian rocks).[8]
^"Benbaun". MountainViews Online Database. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
^"The Twelve Pins or Benna Beola" (English), Beanna Beola (Irish). Placenames Database of Ireland.
^Tempan, Paul (February 2012). "Irish Hill and Mountain Names" (PDF). MountainViews.ie. pp. 17–18.
^"Twelve Bens". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
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