SW Ireland
Munster
County Kerry

Purple Mountain

Purple Mountain at 832 metres high, is the 21st–highest peak in on the Arderin scale, and the 28th–highest according to the Vandeleur-Lynam scale. It is located in , and is the highest point of the Purple Mountain Group.
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Photo: mozzercork, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 832 metres
  • Description: mountain in Kerry, Ireland
  • Also known as: “An Chathair”, “Purple mountain”, “Purple mountain group”, “Shehy Mountain”, “Tomies Chimneys”, “Tomies Mountain”, and “Tomies Rock”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Beaufort and Fossa.

Village
Photo: Europa76, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small village that lies on the banks of the in , in the southwest of . It consists of a post office, three public houses, one supermarket, parish hall, guest houses and thirty private houses.

Hamlet
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is a village and parish in , Ireland, north of the . Townlands in parish:… is situated 8 km northeast of Purple Mountain.

Photo: Bkwillwm, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in 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.

Purple Mountain

Latitude
52.00792° or 52° 0′ 29″ north
Longitude
-9.62248° or 9° 37′ 21″ west
Elevation
832 metres (2,730 feet)
Open location code
9C4G295H+52
Open­Street­Map ID
node 332372514
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
2961989
Wiki­data ID
Q7261438
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Purple Mountain” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Purple Mountain (bukid sa Ireland)”
  • Cebuano: “Purple Mountain”
  • Chinese: “Shehy山”
  • Dutch: “Purple Mountain, County Kerry”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل پورپل (جمهورية ايرلاندا)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل پورپل”
  • Hebrew: “ההר הסגול”
  • Irish: “An Sliabh Corcra”
  • Ladin: “Purple Mountain”
  • Lombard: “An Sliabh Corcra”
  • Swedish: “Purple Mountain”

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Notable Places Nearby

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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 “Purple Mountain”. Photo: mozzercork, CC BY 2.0.