Drung Hill
| Drung Hill | |
|---|---|
| Cnoc Droinge | |
.jpg) Drung Hill with inspection car likely about 1893 | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 640 m (2,100 ft)[1] |
| Coordinates | 52°1′36″N 10°2′11″W / 52.02667°N 10.03639°W |
| Geography | |
  Drung Hill | |
Mountains of the Iveragh Peninsula | |
| OSI/OSNI grid | V603878[1] |
Drung Hill (
History
The name of the hill means 'gathering place' in Gaelic.[2]
Historically, the summit served as a boundary marker between different kingdoms.[2]
Until 1880, the harvest festival of
Sites of interest
There are two cairns on an old road below the summit of Drung Hill. The larger cairn, which has a diameter of approximately 30 metres, is known as Laghtfinnan and may have been erected in prehistoric times.[2] Laghtfinnan was likely a Bronze Age or Neolithic burial site. On top of the cairn, there is a leacht with an Ogham inscription on it that reads [...] MAQI R[...], signifying that the name of the commemorated person's father began with the letter R.[4]
Cahircanaway (also written as Cahir-Canaway),[5] the smaller of the two cairns, is 2.5 metres high. It may have been the site of the inauguration of Fineen MacCarthy Reagh,[6] the final Mac Cárthaigh Mór, by the Ó Súilleabháin Mór (O'Sullivan Mor) in January 1600.[2]
Tobar Fhíonáin (Gaelic: 'Fionán's well'), a former holy well on Drung Hill named after St Fionán of Iveragh (Iveragh's most important saint), was also likely used during pilgrimage rituals.[2]
Access
A section of the Kerry Way known as the Butter Road traverses the northern slopes of Drung Hill.[7] The path was used to transport butter and other goods from Cork to Kerry.[6]
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Drung Hill 640m mountain, Glenbeigh Horseshoe Cen: Glenbeigh Horseshoe Kerry Ireland at MountainViews.ie". MountainViews. 22 May 2010. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-85918-430-1.
- JSTOR 25504169. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ^ Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart (1945). Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum. Vol. 1. Stationery Office. p. 227.
- ISBN 978-1-84383-090-0.
- ^ a b "In search of Cahircanaway: the Inauguration site of the Last MacCarthy Mór". Foras Feasa: Exploring Irish History. 2 June 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ^ Fewer 1996, p. 156.
Bibliography
- Fewer, Michael (1996). The Way-marked Trails of Ireland. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 0-7171-2386-3.
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