Torc Waterfall

Torc Waterfall is a 20 metres excessive, 110 metres lengthy cascade waterfall shaped through the Owengarriff River because 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 four.Three miles from Killarney in Kerry, Ireland. The waterfall is a popular web page on the Ring of Kerry and the Kerry Way excursions. The word Torc is from the Irish translation of a "wild boar", and the place is related to legends regarding wild boars.

One legend is of a person who was cursed by means of the Devil to spend every night time transformed into a wild boar, however whilst his mystery became found out by way of a neighborhood farmer, he burst into flames and disappeared into the nearby Devils Punchbowl on Mangerton Mountain from which the Owengarriff River emerged to hide the entrance to his cave underneath the Torc Waterfall. There is also the tale of the way the mythical Irish warrior, Fionn MacCumhaill, killed a magical boar on Torc mountain together with his golden spear.