Molls Gap, Ladies View, Torc Waterfall, Dingle

Molls Gap

Moll’s Gap or Céim an Daimh (meaning, Gap of the Ox),^[1] is a mountain pass on the N71 road from Kenmare to Killarney in Kerry, Ireland.

Moll’s Gap is on the Ring of Kerry route,^[2] and offers views of the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks mountains, and is a popular tourist location.^[3] The rocks at Moll’s gap are formed of Old Red Sandstone, which are small quartz grains laid down over 350 million years ago; unlike most of the Old Red Sandstone around Killarney which is stained red by iron oxide, the rock at Moll’s gap is stained green by chlorite.^[4] Moll’s Gap is named after Moll Kissane, who ran a shebeen (an unlicensed public house) in the 1820s, while the road was under construction.^[5]^[4]

Like the nearby Gap of Dunloe, Moll’s Gap is an example of a “glacial breach”, where a 500 metre deep glacier in the Black Valley broke through Moll’s Gap 25,000 years ago during Ireland’s last ice age.^[6][4]

Moll’s Gap. (2021, May 24). In Wikipedia.

Photo credit William van Wyk 2022©

Ladies View

Ladies View is a scenic viewpoint on the Ring of Kerry tourist route about 19 kilometres (12 miles) from Killarney along the N71 road to Kenmare, in the Killarney National Park in Ireland.^[1][2] The Irish Times ranked Ladies View as one of the most photographed places in Ireland,^[3] while the Daily Edge ranked the views amongst Ireland’s finest on Instagram.^[4] The name Ladies View (sometimes spelt Ladies’ View), stems from the admiration of the view given by Queen Victoria’s ladies-in-waiting during Victoria’s 1861 visit to Ireland.^[5][2] In October 2017, a tourist couple almost drove their rental car over the edge of the cliff and into the valley below.^[1]

The main viewpoint has a small car park, and a café.

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Photo credit By Bob Familiar

Torc Waterfall

Torc Waterfall (from Irish: Easach Toirc, meaning ‘cascade of the wild boar’)^[3] is a 20 metres (66 ft) high, 110 metres (360 ft) long cascade waterfall formed by the Owengarriff River as it drains from the Devil’s Punchbowl corrie lake at Mangerton Mountain. The waterfall, which lies at the base of Torc Mountain, in the Killarney National Park, is 4.3 miles (7 kilometres) from Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland.^[2][4] The waterfall is a popular site on the Ring of Kerry and the Kerry Way tours.^[1]