Hungry Hill

This walk climbs to Hungry Hill from the Healy Pass in the Caha Mountains on the Beara Peninsula.
The walk can be started off from the Healy Pass Road where there's a roadside parking area near Don's Mountain Cabin. From here you follow the road south before heading south west to climb to a series of peaks before ascending to the summit of Hungry Hill.... The summit stands at a height of 685 metres (2,247 ft) making it the highest peak of the Caha Mountains and the 130th highest in Ireland. From here there are some wonderful views over the surrounding mountains to the coast. On the eastern side of the mountain there are two lakes — Coomadayallig and Coomarkane — which both drain into the Mare's Tail waterfall. This is notable as the highest waterfall in Ireland and the UK.
You can extend your walking in the area by visiting the nearby Healy Pass Waterfall and the beautiful Glanmore Lake.

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Hungry Hill lies on the border of counties Cork and Kerry, although the peak is on the Cork side

Hungry Hill is the title and setting of a 1943 novel by English author Daphne du Maurier. Her descriptions of the mountain and environs are markedly similar to the actual location. In the novel, the name of the mountain is metaphoric, as during the course of the novel the mountain seems to "swallow" successive generations of the Broderick family, who own and mine the mountain. The story is reputedly based on the Irish ancestors of Daphne du Maurier's friend Christopher Puxley. The character Daniel O'Rourke, from the Irish folktale of the same name, lives at the bottom of Hungry Hill

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