Table Mountain is a peak in the southern section of the Wicklow Mountains range in Ireland. With a prominence of only , it is only listed in a few of the recognised categories of mountains in Ireland; it is the 110th–highest peak on the Vandeleur-Lynam Irish scale.Mountainviews, (September 2013), "A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits: The Vandeleur-Lynams & the Arderins", Collins Books, Cork, Table Mountain is at the apex of a horseshoe-shaped "boggy" massif with its larger neighbours, Camenabologue and Conavalla that sit at the head of the Glenmalure valley; all three peaks lie close to the "central spine" of the range as it runs from Kippure in the north, to Lugnaquillia in the south. There is no recorded Irish language name for Table Mountain, and it has no connection with Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa.
Plane crash On the afternoon of 7 March 1957, between 12:30 and 12:45pm, a Percival Provost training plane crashed into the slopes of Table Mountain in thick fog resulting in the death of its pilot, an Irish Air Corps lieutenant. The pilot was 21-year-old Patrick L. O'Connor, of Clooneyquin, Castlerea, County Roscommon. The plane had left Baldonnel Aerodrome, Dublin at 11:15am that morning for an intended training flight over the counties of Offaly and Wicklow, but was believed to have lost contact with the control tower shortly after departure. The explosion was heard by forestry workers on nearby Conavalla Mountain who rushed to assist and were able to raise the alarm. Parts of the aircraft, which were scattered over an area of 80 yards, still remained on the slopes of the mountain as of 2010.
Bibliography
See also Wicklow Way Wicklow Mountains Lists of mountains in Ireland List of mountains of the British Isles by height List of Hewitt mountains in England, Wales and Ireland
References
External links MountainViews: The Irish Mountain Website, Table Mountain MountainViews: Irish Online Mountain Database The Database of British and Irish Hills , the largest database of British Isles mountains ("DoBIH") Hill Bagging UK & Ireland, the searchable interface for the DoBIH