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South Wexford Area

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Maximum height for area: 270 metres

Summits in area: 3

OS Map(s): 76, 77 for all tops

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Tory Hill Hill	Kilkenny County
Sliabh gCruinn A name in Irish	(Language)
(Ir. Sliabh gCruinn [OG], 'round mountain')
Height: 292 metres	OS 1/50k Mapsheet: 75,76 for top
Grid Ref: S59612 22188	Latitude: 52.348508 Longitude: -7.125967
ITM: 659548 622239	Prominence: 170m Isolation: 13.2km
The name Sliabh gCruinn also occurs in Co. Waterford (Slievegrine). The English name, Tory Hill, refers to a raparee. There is also a hill of this name in Co. Limerick. According to Rev. William Carrigan (the History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory, 1905), Tory Hill in Kilkenny was so named from a famous outlaw named Edmund Den, who flourished in this locality, about the year 1700. Carrigan also reports that an annual pattern took place on the 2nd Sunday of July, locally known as 'Tory Hill Sunday' or 'Frochan Sunday'. On the flat ground below [the hill] called the Faithche (now the townland of Fahy), great games of hurling were said to have been held, sixty players to a side (MacNeill, 230-231). Tory Hill is the 969th highest summit in Ireland. Tory Hill is the most southerly summit in the South Midlands area. Our data has reached 63% of the goal for this summit. (Details)

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