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| Maximum height for area: 832 metres |
Summits in area: 4 |
| OS Map(s): 78 for all tops |
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| Purple Mountain Mountain |
Kerry County |
| An Sliabh Corcra
A name in Irish |
(Language) |
| This is almost certainly a name coined in English. |
| Height: 832 metres |
OS 1/50k Mapsheet: 78 for top |
| Grid Ref: V88640 85172 |
Latitude: 52.007916 Longitude: -9.622482 |
| ITM: 488614 585231 |
Prominence: 597m Isolation: 1.0km |
In his Topographical Dictionary of Ireland of 1837, Samuel Lewis reports that Purple Mountain is ‘so called from the colour of the shivered slate on its surface.’ The Irish version looks like a back-translation from the English by OSI. References to Tomish or Toomish Mountain (i.e. Tomies) in The Ancient and Present State of the County of Kerry (1756) by Charles Smith make it clear that this name applied to the whole of what is now known as Purple Mountain. A number of 19th century sources confirm this, and this explains why Purple Mountain is not marked on the 6 map, though Tomies and Shehy Mountain are.
Purple Mountain is the highest mountain in the Purple Mtn area and the 27th highest in Ireland. Purple Mountain is the most southerly summit in the Purple Mtn area and also the most westerly. Our data has reached 80% of the goal for this summit. (Details) |
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