Higher than a breadbox

One rough locator which I've used to describe where we live is "the South Face of Mount Leinster" , as an ironic parity-of-esteem claim to the Eiger-Nordwand, ahem aka Mordwand. Let's face it, Ireland is really not mountainous on the global scale. My old biochemistry Prof Frank Winder is chiefly remembered as the first person to climb a particular route in a quarry in Dalkey, Co. Dublin which was thereafter known as Winder's Crack (1949). And you're welcome to wedge your fingers in there. Frank had to go to The Grand Tetons to climb, like, mou⛰️tains.

As Bill Bryson noted, for the notoriously monoglot USAians, Grand Tetons means Big Titties. Mountaineering involves two quite different goals: a) getting to the top, for the view b) stretching body and mind to make progress up rock-faces. Mt Leinster, for example is a walk in the park. There is a metalled road to the summit which services the TV station there; and Dau.I walked from ours to the summit in bare feet as an 10 y.o. Some mountaineers / yompers in WEA = these islands, are Munro-baggers. Munros were first defined [> 3,000 ft = 940m] and listed (1891) by Sir Hugh Munro, a tweed and hobnail mountaineer, like Irvine. The Munro list is long enough [N= 282] to pose a challenge that can be completed in adecade of determined weekends or a life-time for reg'lar folks.

Not all the Munros are craggy. The easy ones are only really challenging in midwinter, carrying a fridge or with kindergarteners at foot. I was delighted, in a Grand Teton way, to read about Marilyns named by Alan Dawson in 1992 after Ms Monroe and noted for their [> 150m] "prominence".  The Brits call it 'drop' and it is defined as the difference in height between the knopje / peak and the lowest contour that separates the peak from anything higher. It is orthogonal to 'isolation' which is the horizontal distance to the nearest higher mountaintop.  The Marilyn drop is only one of several definitions / lists to set your sights /boots on. Mt Leinster is a Marilyn. As is the much less accessible Stac an Armin [above L] in St Kilda.

• Arderins are Irish hills with a height of at least 500m and a drop of 30m
• Binnions height < 400m but a drop of  > 100m
  
• Carns 100 m < height < 400m with a drop of 30 m
• Deweys 500 m < height < 2,000 ft / 610m and a drop of 30 m in Eng / Wales / IoM
• Fives as Dewey for Scotland
  
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• Wainwrights are hills at least 1,000 ft = 305 m tall with a drop of 15 m in the English Lake District
• YOMPs - Mountain peaks for young and old
• ZOMBs - guaranteed safe during the Zombie Apocalypse

See also HuMPs (Hundred and upwards Metre Prominence); TuMPs (Thirty and upwards Metre Prominence); Corbetts; Furths (Munros not in Scotland); Grahams; Hughs (Hills Under Graham Height); SIMMs (Six-hundred Metre Mountains) . . . and so forth into nicety and pedantry.