Hungry Hill
{{Short description|Mountain in Cork, Ireland}}
{{About|the Irish hill|other articles|Hungry Hill (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox mountain
| name = Hungry Hill / Knockday
| other_name = Cnoc Daod
| photo = Hungry hill.jpg
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| elevation_m = 685
| elevation_ref ={{cite web |url=http://mountainviews.ie/mv/index.php?mtnindex=130 |title=Hungry Hill |publisher=MountainViews.ie |access-date=20 May 2007}}
| prominence_m =400
| location = Beara Peninsula, Ireland
| range = Caha Mountains
| map = Ireland
| label_position = right
| map_size = 200
| coordinates = {{coord|51|41|9|N|9|47|31|W|type:mountain_region:IE}}
| grid_ref_Ireland = V761497
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Hungry Hill or Knockday[https://www.logainm.ie/en/101226 Knockday or Hungry Hill]. Placenames Database of Ireland. ({{langx|ga|Cnoc Daod}}) is the highest of the Caha Mountains on the Beara Peninsula in Munster, Ireland.
Etymology
The first part of the Irish name Cnoc Daod means "hill". The second part may be a dialectal variant of déad, meaning "tooth", "set of teeth" or "jaw".Tempan, Paul. [http://mountainviews.ie/features/names/List2010/MVHillList09.pdf Irish Hill and Mountain Names]. MountainViews.ie. It has been anglicized as Knockdhead and Knockday.[http://www.logainm.ie/101226.aspx Placenames Database of Ireland] (see [http://www.logainm.ie/Image.aspx?PlaceID=101226&Url=Box+08%5cAN101226_2.JPG&NoBlock=yes archival records])
Geography
File:Cnoc Daod - Hungry Hill - geograph.org.uk - 275340.jpg
With a height of {{convert|685|m|ft}} it is the highest peak of the Caha Mountains and the 130th highest in Ireland. Hungry Hill lies on the border of counties Cork and Kerry, although the peak is on the Cork side.{{fact|date=May 2021}}
There is a cairn at the summit and a number of standing stones to the south and east of the mountain. At its eastern foot are two lakes — Coomadayallig and Coomarkane — which both drain into the Mare's Tail waterfall. This is the highest waterfall in Ireland and the UK.{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}
In popular culture
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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.dumaurier.org/reviews-hungry.html |title=Daphne du Maurier book reviews |access-date=2015-06-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626124654/http://www.dumaurier.org/reviews-hungry.html |archive-date=2015-06-26 |url-status=dead }}
The character Daniel O'Rourke, from the Irish folktale of the same name, lives at the bottom of Hungry Hill.{{cite book |last=Croker|first=Thomas Crofton|author-link=Thomas Crofton Croker |date=1834 |title=Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland |url=https://archive.org/details/fairylegendstrad00crokrich |access-date=June 24, 2023}}
See also
References
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{{Mountains and hills of Munster}}