Torc Waterfall
Torc Waterfall is a 20 metres high, 110 metres long cascade waterfall formed by the Owengarriff River as it drains from the Devil's Punchbowl corrie lake at Mangerton Mountain.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Waterfall
- Description: waterfall in Killarney, Ireland
- Also known as: “Torc Mountain” and “Tore Cascade”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Torc Mountain and Muckross House.
Torc Mountain
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: TJBrosnan, Public domain.
Torc Mountain, at 535 metres, is the 329th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin list. It is a popular mountain for hill walkers as it has a stone or boarded path from its base at Torc Waterfall to its summit, which has views of the Lakes of Killarney.
Muckross House
Castle
Photo: Emmett.Hume, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Muckross House is located on the small Muckross Peninsula between Muckross Lake and Lough Leane, two of the lakes of Killarney, 6 kilometres from the town of Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland.
Killarney National Park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Killarney National Park, near the town of Killarney, County Kerry, was the first national park in Ireland, created when the Muckross Estate was donated to the Irish Free State in 1932. Killarney National Park is situated 3½ km west of Torc Waterfall.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Killarney and Fossa.
Killarney
Photo: Bkwillwm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Killarney is a town in County Kerry in southwest Ireland. It has a resident population of about 14,000 but in summer they're outnumbered by tourists, because this is one of the most scenic areas of Ireland, firmly on the tourist circuit for over 150 years.
Fossa
Hamlet
Photo: Bkwillwm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fossa is a village and parish in County Kerry, Ireland, north of the Lakes of Killarney. Townlands in Fossa parish:… Fossa is situated 9 km northwest of Torc Waterfall.
Torc Waterfall
- Category: body of water
- Location: County Kerry, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.00312° or 52° 0′ 11″ northLongitude
-9.5056° or 9° 30′ 20″ westElevation
205 metres (673 feet)Open location code
9C4G2F3V+6QOpenStreetMap ID
node 1783001129OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=waterfall
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Torc Waterfall” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Torc ur-jauzia”
- Bengali: “টর্ক জলপ্রপাত”
- Cebuano: “Torc Cascade”
- Dutch: “Torc Waterfall”
- German: “Torc Waterfall”
- Hausa: “Ruwan Torc”
- Irish: “Easach Toirc”
- Italian: “cascate di Torc”
- Italian: “Cascate di Torc”
- Polish: “Torc”
- Polish: “Wodospad Torc”
- Spanish: “Cascada de Torc”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as O’Sullivan’s Punch Bowl and Owgarrif Bridge.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Arboretum and Devil’s Island.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Torc Waterfall”. Photo: Pam Brophy, CC BY-SA 2.0.