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Place count in area: 6, OSI/LPS Maps: 78, EW-KNP, EW-R
Highest place: Purple Mountain, 832m Maximum height for area: 832 metres, Maximum prominence for area: 597 metres,
Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
Tomies MountainMountainAn Chathair A name in Irish, also Cathair an extra EastWest name in IrishKerryCounty in Munster Province, in Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam Lists, Purple sandstone & siltstone Bedrock
Height:735mOS 1:50k Mapsheet: 78Grid Reference: V89499 86766 Place visited by 462 members. Recently by: Lucy.boland, JohnHoare, wallr, Gergrylls, Mario77, overthehill67, bagoff, farmerjoe, Aneta.jablonska, NualaB, DeirdreM, Carolyn105, Arcticaurora, maitiuocoimin, Moses I have visited this place: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.)
Cathair ('stone fort') is the name of the highest point (735m) of Tomies Mountain, but not the name of the mountain as a whole (TH). References to Tomish or Toomish Mountain in The Ancient and Present State of the County of Kerry (1756) make it clear that this name applied to the whole of what is now called Purple Mountain. When the name Purple Mountain gained currency in the 19th century as the name applied to the massif in general and its highest top, the name Tomies Mountain was probably relegated in status, referring only to the subsidiary peak. Joyce gives the Irish name as Tuamaidhe and explains it in reference to the two sepulchral heaps of stones on the summit (PWJ, vol. I, p. 336).
Tomies Mountain is the 86th highest place in Ireland. Tomies Mountain is the second most northerly summit in the Purple Mountain area. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/84/