Richard Mersey’s book “The Hills of Cork and Kerry” has this apt description which I couldn’t hope to improve on: “This mountain is also called Cnoc Daod, and, by those to its south, Angry Hill. It is 2,251 feet high and is the crown of the Cahas both in altitude and in shape. Just as a crown has hard vertical sides and a soft flat top, so does this hill. Every approach to Hungry Hill is up steep rock until you reach the 2,000 (610m) contour. There you gain, as it were, the velvet of the crown – one square mile of cushiony turf.”

Note: at 685m it is not as high as either Ahinkeen 692m or Knockboy 706m which today, at least, are included in the Cahas.

The photo shows the pull up the North East side of Hungry Hill. This is the direction you would come if you were following a route from Derryclancy. It looks quite a bit more intimidating than it is. By heading to the base of the cliffs and then walking up and to the right of the picture it is possible to go along grassy slopes between the slabs. That said, it would be a good bit harder in poor visibility. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/130/comment/449/

Besides its own amazing aspect of giant sloping ridges of rock, the ascent of Hungry Hill from the north offers spectacular views to the west of the eastern face of Knocknagree East top, itself a solid mass of rock rising to 461m above the beautiful Glanmore Valley, complete with waterfall, which winds its way into a lush green pasture. Accompanying shot gives some small sense of this view. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/130/comment/6352/

Climbed Hungry hill on June 10th 2011 - Me and my wife were all alone on this beautiful panoramic mountain, even on this sunny and warm day. As a Belgian mountaineer, I found a lot of information on this website so I concern it as my duty to share my experiences during our 15 day Ireland round-trip on which we climbed several summits all over south and west Ireland.

Lewvalton's description is the most accurate when you are attempting to climb the SW ridge.
In addition I would like to add following comments :
- Taking the r-hand turn off the R572 and driving up the small road nearly to the gate closing off the road some 500 m before Loch Park is an adventure on its own. The road is very small and there are nearly no crossing opportunities. Be careful.
- At loch park one could climb slightly to the right up to the notch, but it is highly advisable also to climb the initial section. To do so, just walk around Loch Park and walk some 200 meter further down the road leaving the rock at your r-hand side. Beware not to start climbing too early since the start section could be quite hard.
- When leaving the ridge, the platform towards the huge cairn at point 667m is quite peaty, but was dry on the day we climbed.
- Going downhill on the south face is like walking in a labyrinth of rocks. One should go straight down south at the point were the SW ridge meets the grassy platform. Continue going down until you meet the "green highway" down to the west and leading towards Loch Park. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/130/comment/6459/

This photo shows a huge and very visible cairn at spot height 667 on the OS 1:50k map. The actual summit complete with trig pillar is on the skyline and is some 500m North across the “cushiony turf”. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/130/comment/450/

Two special memories are : A Russian armada of some fifty trawlers and support ships filling Berehaven below me one Good Friday in the mid-eighties : A walking friend being overtaken by a 'strong weakness' from hunger on this very summit and the mighty steak which was administered in Casys Hotel by way of a cure. Picture shows the summit from the shoulder of Derryclancy with Coomadavallig Lake Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/130/comment/456/