Name: Glencolmcille Climbfest
Start: 2025-05-02T08:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-05-05T17:00:00+00:00

Editor: Cruit Island - Farmhouse Crag
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Crag Profile: Cruit Island - Farmhouse Crag
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Farmhouse Crag, Cruit - Farmhouse Crag Topo provided by Iain Miller
Directions: Four Hundred yards past the entrance to the thatched cottages, behind and below a 2 storey farmhouse, there is a buttress at the Northern end of a small beach. Climbs are described left to right. OS Grid Reference: B732217 Click here to view location in Google Maps
- Day Pass VS - Length: 10m 'Drew Smiley, Nial Browne Climbfest 2010 As for Weekend pass, but follow the cracks right at 2/3 right to an awkward fist jam and over block to top. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
- Weekend Pass HVS - Length: 10m 'Drew Smiley, Nial Brown, Climbfest 2010 At the left hand end of the main face the return face is accessible at high tide. In the middle of this face is a fist crack. Bloody jams straight up this to top! View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
1 - Momentary lapse of Reason S 4a Length: 12m I. Miller, C. Gleeson 16/08/09 Climb the blunt Arete immediately to the left of the grim open book corner to the left of the crag. Steeper than it looks! View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
2 - Easy Pieces E1 5b Length: 12m Michael Hassan, Alfie Donnelly 1/5/2010 Just to the right of the obvious open book corner is a leftward trending crack line that runs all the way to the top. This route take that line. Good nut placement at about half height that is a little tricky to place. Couple of difficult moves then follow. Top a bit crumbly on first ascent. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
3 - all chalk and no action HVS 5a Length: 12m H.Hennessy K.McGee 2/5/2010 climbs the righthand crack four meters left of seb. climb 7 meters untill the crack veers left reach out right to the arete and make an awkward mantle onto a good ledge move back left and finish more easily. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
4 - headrush HVS 5a Length: 12m H.hennessy 1/5/2010 start three meters left of seb under a small overhang at 4 meters. climb past the overhang to good ledges follow these to top. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
5 - Seb VD Length: 13m E Hackett,V Kelly 03/08/85 The wide crack with the large chock-stone jammed near the top View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
6 - Ribbly Runner VD Length: 13m R Higgins,D Walsh (5/8/85) The rib immediately right of Seb. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
7 - Cois Farraige HS Length: 14m V Kelly,E Hackett 03/08/85) Why is this name so popular? The crack just right of Ribbly Runner. The crux above the horizontal break View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
8 - Cruitical VS Length: 14m D Doyle & G Moss 03/08/85 The crack which starts about 3m (10ft) up, 2m right of 'Cois Farraige'. Crux above break. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
9 - Sandboy S Length: 13m G Moss,D Doyle (3/8/85) The right edge of the face. Above the break, climb either or both twin cracks. The choices are endless. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
10 - Scavenger D Length: 13m P Conroy,M Lynch (5/8/85) The groove with rock fins right of Sandboy View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
11 - Happy Bunnies D - Length: 13m I. Miller, M. Boner 01/01/09 The very wide groove 2 metres to the right of Scavenger. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
12 - First Blood D - Length: 13m M. Boner, I. Miller 01/01/09 The next deep groove a metre to the right of "Happy Bunnies." View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
113 - Happy Bunnies 2 D - Length: 13m I. Miller, M. Boner 01/01/09 The deep groove a metre to the right of "First Blood." View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
14 - Beachboys D Length: 13m R Cole, O Creegan (5/8/85) The penultimate groove at the right of the buttress. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
15 - Zola D Length: 12m EHackett, VKelly(3/8/85) The groove just left of the rib at the right-hand end of the buttress. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
16 - Rising Damp HS 4b Length: 12m I. Miller, C. Gleeson 16/09/09 Climb the rib edge to the right of the "Zola" groove, a thought provoking top-out. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
17 - Grunt N Roar HVS 5a Length: 10m I. Miller, C. Gleeson 16/08/09 Climb the monster roof to the right of the crag. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
17a - Out of Limbo S - Length: 10m G. O'Sulliven, S. McErlean 4/5/2013 Start as for Grunt N'Roar; go up to roof but then escape right up the corner for a few moves before returning to the arete. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route