Mullaghanish

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Mullaghanish
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Transmitter masts at Mullaghanish
Highest point
Elevation 649 m (2,129 ft) [1]
Prominence 264 m (866 ft) [1]
Listing Marilyn, Hewitt
Coordinates 51°59′00″N9°08′39″W / 51.983393°N 9.144209°W / 51.983393; -9.144209
Naming
Native nameMullach an Ois
English translationsummit of the deer
Geography
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Red triangle with thick white border.svg
Mullaghanish
Location in Ireland
Location County Cork and County Kerry, Ireland
Parent range Derrynasaggart Mountains
OSI/OSNI grid W214817
Topo map OSi Discovery 79

Mullaghanish (Irish : Mullach an Ois) is a 649 m high mountain in the Derrynasaggart range, located just northeast of Ballyvourney in County Cork, Ireland.

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Transmission site

This site is home to one of Telefís Éireann's original five main television transmitters. Coming on air in December 1962, initially on low power, it was in full operation by September 1963 with a 625-line VHF service for the Southwest of Ireland, namely counties Cork, Kerry and Limerick. Today it is owned and operated by 2RN a subsidiary of RTÉ. In 2009 in preparation for the transmission of digital terrestrial television (DTT), a new mast was erected at Mullaghanish with a height of 225m, making it the tallest television transmitter in Ireland, the original 170m mast was subsequently removed. Analogue television transmissions from this site ended on 24 October 2012, and the national DTT service, Saorview, is now broadcast from Mullaghanish at an ERP of 200 kW, making this the most powerful television transmitter in all of Ireland, a distinction formerly attributed to the Cairn Hill (analogue) transmitter in County Longford.

As well as digital television, six national FM radio services are broadcast from the site, all using vertical polarisation. Local station, Radio Kerry, is broadcast from a directional antenna pointing west, into its target service area of County Kerry, and Newstalk is broadcast in mono.

The Mullaghanish transmitter has the highest number of relays (20) of any television transmitter in Ireland reflecting the difficult topography of its service area.

Current transmissions

Digital television

FrequencyUHFkWMultiplexPol
474 MHz21200 Saorview 1H
498 MHz24200 Saorview 2H

FM radio

FrequencykWService
90.0 MHz160 RTÉ Radio 1
92.2 MHz160 RTÉ 2FM
94.4 MHz160 RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta
97.0 MHz20 Radio Kerry
99.6 MHz160 RTÉ Lyric FM
101.8 MHz160 Today FM
107.4 MHz20 Newstalk

Mullaghanish relay transmitters

DTT RelayCountyMux 1Mux 2kWPol
BandonCork47440.04H
BantryCork33362V&H
CastletownbereCork40434V
ClonakiltyCork48460.05H
CrosshavenCork46560.5V
DingleKerry30260.5V
DrimoleagueCork42490.05V
DungarvanWaterford323410H
FermoyCork33360.05V
FerrypointWaterford40430.05V
GlanmireCork47440.2H
KilkeaveraghKerry47448V
KinsaleCork30260.03V
KnockmoyleKerry33361V
LeapCork46480.02H
MaamclassachKerry46510.2V
MitchelstownLimerick40430.5V
Mt. GabrielCork37310.5V&H
RosscarberyCork32340.05H
TimoleagueCork26290.01V

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References

  1. 1 2 "Mullaghanish". MountainViews.ie. Retrieved 7 January 2017.