Mount Misery

Mount Misery or Misery Mountain may refer to:

Summits

In the United States

• Mount Misery, a rocky hill in Pachaug State Forest, Connecticut
• Mount Misery, a hill in the town of Auburn, New Hampshire
• Mount Misery, or Valley Forge Mountain, in Tredyffrin Township, Pennsylvania
• Mount Misery, a hill and conservation area located in Lincoln, Massachusetts
• Mount Misery, a large wooded area and supposedly haunted hill in Huntington, New York on Long Island that once belonged to the Matnecock tribe, who believed the land was cursed
  • Mount Misery Road, a long stretch of road running alongside the Mount Misery woods
• Mount Misery, a hill on Buck Quarter Creek in northeastern Orange County, North Carolina
• Misery Mountain (Taconic Mountains), a mountain located in New York and Massachusetts

Elsewhere

• Mount Misery, in Country Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Mount Misery, between Ballarat and Beaufort, Victoria, Australia
• Mount Misery in Gibraltar had Mount Misery Battery on it
• Mount Misery, on West Point Island, one of the Falkland Islands
• Mount Misery, former name of Mount Liamuiga on the island of Saint Kitts
• Mount Misery, a rock face in south County Kilkenny, overlooking Waterford,Ireland

Other locations

• Pinelands Center at Mount Misery, a Methodist retreat center and camping site in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, USA
  • Mount Misery Brook, a brook near the retreat center
• Mount Misery, a farm in the town of St. Michaels, Maryland, USA, owned by Edward Covey in the 1800s and purchased in 2003 by Donald Rumsfeld

Culture

• Mount Misery (book), a 1999 book by Samuel Shem
• "Mount Misery", a song by The Zephyrs from their 2001 album When the Sky Comes Down It Comes Down on Your Head
• "Mount Misery" A Rock Face In South Co Kilkenny overlooking Waterford City which has become the focus of a Hurling Supporters Battle with both Waterford and Kilkenny Hurling Supporters. Although the Waterford People known as The Deise lay claim to it, it is geographically in Co Kilkenny located just below Waterford Golf Club (also based in Co Kilkenny). Waterford People have a tendency to lay claim to what ever their eyes can gaze upon and more recently have put forward proposals to further extend their boundary into Co Kilkenny in an effort to bring some great hurlers into their county.

References

• Kilkenny People Feature
• From Slang.ie
• From The Journal.ie