Hungry Hill or Knockday[2] (Irish: Cnoc Daod) is the highest of the Caha Mountains on the Beara Peninsula in Munster, Ireland.
[citation needed] There is a cairn at the summit and a number of standing stones to the south and east of the mountain.
[citation needed] Hungry Hill is the title and setting of a 1943 novel by English author Daphne du Maurier.
The story is reputedly based on the Irish ancestors of Daphne du Maurier’s friend Christopher Puxley.
[5] The character Daniel O'Rourke, from the Irish folktale of the same name, lives at the bottom of Hungry Hill.