Qualla: Carrigeenamronety Hill https://qualla.com/carrigeenamronety-hill en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/1/carrigeenamronety-hill-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Carrigeenamronety Hill https://qualla.com/carrigeenamronety-hill Carrigeenamronety Hill: Introduction https://qualla.com/carrigeenamronety-hill/ Photo credit Adareman, CC BY-SA 4.0. In the year 976, the brother of Ireland's most famous high king was murdered in the gap below this hill. Mahon mac Cennetig, brother of Brian Boru and King of Munster, walked into a conspiracy of Norse Limerick, the King of Desmond, and the King of Hy Carbery, and never walked out. The killing place was a chasm between Carrigeenamronety and Coolfree known as Bearna Dhearg - the Red Gap - on the high road from Limerick into south Munster. A stone at the spot still marks where he is reputed to have fallen. The Annals of the Four Masters recorded the story. The Irish bards kept it alive. And the modest sandstone hill that watches the gap today still carries the weight of that ancient betrayal.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/1/carrigeenamronety-hill-wp/gc61-carrigeenamronety-hill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Carrigeenamronety Hill: The Red Gap https://qualla.com/carrigeenamronety-hill/ Photo credit CaitNi, CC BY-SA 4.0. Carrigeenamronety rises to 401 metres on the Cork-Limerick border, with a prominence of 226 metres that earns it a place among the Marilyns - that strange British and Irish category of hills distinct enough to count. The pass below it, Bearna Dhearg, sometimes anglicised as Red C...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/1/carrigeenamronety-hill-wp/gc61-carrigeenamronety-hill-the-red-gap.mp3 0:06 2 full Carrigeenamronety Hill: Quern Hill https://qualla.com/carrigeenamronety-hill/ Photo credit Ruhrfisch, CC BY-SA 4.0. The hill carries another name in the local memory: Carrig na mBronta, or Quern Hill, for the millstones once quarried along its southern slope. The conglomerate rock here, where Old Red Sandstone meets Silurian beds in a band of escarpment near the summit, was good stone for grin...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/1/carrigeenamronety-hill-wp/gc61-carrigeenamronety-hill-quern-hill.mp3 0:06 3 full Carrigeenamronety Hill: The Citadel https://qualla.com/carrigeenamronety-hill/ Photo credit Sean an Scuab, CC BY-SA 3.0. Near the top sits a structure the National Monuments record calls "the Citadel." In 1984 surveyors recorded a circular enclosure 34 metres across, perched 2.5 metres above the surrounding ground, bounded on the west by a six-metre sandstone cliff and on the other sides by a doubl...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/1/carrigeenamronety-hill-wp/gc61-carrigeenamronety-hill-the-citadel.mp3 0:06 4 full Carrigeenamronety Hill: A fern among the heath https://qualla.com/carrigeenamronety-hill/ Photo credit Speed Lancelot (1860-1931), Public domain. The hill became a Special Area of Conservation in 2017, designated for two reasons: dry heath habitat and the Killarney fern, Trichomanes speciosum. The fern is one of Ireland's botanical treasures - a delicate, translucent thing that grows in dripping, sheltered crevices where h...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/1/carrigeenamronety-hill-wp/gc61-carrigeenamronety-hill-a-fern-among-the-heath.mp3 0:06 5 full Carrigeenamronety Hill: The witch's pipe https://qualla.com/carrigeenamronety-hill/ Photo credit CaitNi, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Irish Folklore Commission's Schools Collection, recorded in 1937-38 by children in Kildorrery, preserves a stranger story. Petticoat Loose, the witch or evil spirit of folklore, lived at Labbacallee - a wedge tomb near Glanworth in County Cork, twenty miles south. Her brother...

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