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Start: 2025-05-02T08:00:00+00:00
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Editor: Gola - Mhachaire na nGall Walls
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Crag Profile: Gola - Mhachaire na nGall Walls
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Mhachaire na nGall Walls - Still plenty to go down there.
Directions: From the beach (Tra Mhachaire na nGall) walking toward the main crag you encounter the first small zawn with a stony beach at its end. Scramble down ledges on the west of the zawn and you come to an east-facing corner (DidEye and Chinface) with twin cracks on its left (Bootleg). Walking around the cliff base west you come to another corner facing west (Currach) and finally to a short sea wall with a small shallow boulder filled zawn below (Walrus Wall). (If the left-to-right ordering is out please let me know? PC) OS Grid Reference: B764271 Click here to view location in Google Maps
165 - Alan’s Route (line) S 4a Length: 14m A. Tees Climb the right trending ramp at the far left of the crag. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
165a - Jam Jar * VS 4c Length: 12m J. Hawkins, P. O'Farrell. 30/03/97 This unusual route takes the obvious vertical flared crack/groove on the left of the crag. Climb it however possible to the top. Carefully placed friends for protection. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
166 - Wendy Raindrops VD No length recorded S.McMullan (solo) 6 July '96 Traversing in from the right side of the seawall along the terrace, a large hold ridden groove is encountered. Climb it, or else don't! View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
166a - Horizontal Heaven VS 5a Length: 8m P. Reid, K. Kilroy 05/06/10 On the south facing wall between Bootleg and Wendy Raindrops. Climb the lower wall directly to reach horizontal breaks and finish with an under cling/mantle. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
167 - Currach VD Length: 8m M.Daly (solo) 2 June '96 Further along this ledge there is a west-facing corner. The route takes this corner. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
170 - Whoops Jonny HS 4a Length: 8m S Grew, A McCalman, June 2015 The ar?te just left of Bootleg. Slopey and interesting for an HS. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
1 - The Golan Lament VS 4c Length: 9m R Kernan, L Davison 13/6/14 The arete 4m right of Currach, climbed on its left side. Good gear in the breaks. Feels exposed! View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
167a - You Forgot The Battery Mummy VS 4c Length: 9m RÃ³nÃ¡n Kernan, Conor Gilmour 5/6/12 About 20m left of DidEye and Chinface is a large roof with a chimney at its left-hand end. Left of this chimney is a short overhanging route following a series of flakes to a green v-groove between the wall and a block. Climb these, finishing in the groove left of the block. Pumpy. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
1 - The Speed of Dampness VS 4b Length: 8m R Kernan, L Davison 13/6/14 Fist sized crack 10m left of Bootleg. Jam painfully up the crack, finishing up easier ground. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
167b - All The Power HVS 5a Length: 12m P. Reid, K. Kilroy 05/06/10 Climbing the dog leg crack 2m left of Wendy Raindrops. Protect lower section with Cams and loads of protection on the upper leftward section of the crack. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
1 - You Promised Me Jugs VS 4b Length: 8m L Davison, R Kernan, S McCaffrey 13/6/14 Starts just right of The Speed of Dampness. Steep moves off the ground lead to a groove. Sustained. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
167c - Driver E1 5b Length: 20m K. Kilroy, P. Reid (5/6/2010) Climbs the leftward trending crack up the middle of the wall 3 meters left of 'All the Power'. Start at a semi hanging belay on the ledge directly below All the Power. Make balancey then strenuous moves up the leftward trending crack to gain a good ledge. Finish directly up the wall above and into a deep recess. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
168 - Bootleg S 4a No length recorded M.Daly (solo) 2 June '96 The route is on a wall just left of the first corner. Climb the left trending jam crack to top. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
169 - DidEye and Chinface S 4a No length recorded S.McMullan (solo) 2 June '96 The east-facing corner viewable from the beach climb the corner with increasing difficulty. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
169a - Speed Of Darkness HS 4a Length: 8m A. Isa, M. Cooley 2/06/2008 Climb the slightly overhanging vertical crack 3m to the right of the corner directly. Sustained but easy in the grade. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
169b - Black Blood Arete HVS 5b Length: 8m K. Kilroy, S. Black (11/7/2011) Climbs the steep left hand side of the short curving arete (incut at its base) visible from the beach, just right of The Speed of Darkness. Start directly below the arete reaching for the first good break, launch up leftwards through an initial crux section and up the wall above. Well protected. Mats used on F.A View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route
169c - The Mothman VS 5a Length: 7m K. Kilroy, Benoit (11/7/2011) The righthand side of Blood Black Arete. Start directly below the arete as for BBA and then launch up and right through a crux section to follow the cracked and broken wall with trepidation to the top. Mats used on F.A. View Route Edit Route Upload a new photo for this route