The Kerry Mountain Rescue Team responded to two separate callouts on Carrauntoohill yesterday evening.
At around 4 o'clock, a female hillwalker suffered a lower leg injury near the base of the zig-zags on Cnoc na Toinne, before she was evacuated to Lisleibane by Land Rover.
Later on, a male walker in his 60s had taken ill at the summit.
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Kerry Mountain Rescue Team members climbed to the summit to treat him at the scene, before he was taken to an awaiting ambulance at Kissane's Cross.
A total of 16 members were involved in the rescue operation, which concluded at half past midnight last night.
