Macgillicuddy's Reeks

[muh-gil-i-kuhd-eez reeks]

noun

1. a mountain range in County Kerry, SW Ireland. Highest peak (also highest in Ireland), Carrantuohill, 3,414 feet (1,041 meters).

Macgillicuddy's Reeks

/ məˌɡɪlɪˌkʌdɪz ˈriːks /

plural noun

1. a range of mountains in SW Republic of Ireland in Kerry: includes Ireland's highest mountain (Carrantuohill)

Example Sentences

Macgillicuddy's Reeks contain the highest summits in Ireland.

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Macgillicuddy's Reeks can hardly be appreciated in less than a week's exploration.

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Then again we were off, mounting steadily, steadily, winding under beetling crags and above grey precipices; up and up, with the world sinking away into the valley at our left, and the heathery, rock-strewn heights soaring upward at our right; and finally, at our feet, opened the wonderful panorama of the Brown Valley—brown bog, brown rock, brown heather, mounting to the distant slopes of Macgillicuddy's Reeks.

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This, to a certain extent, rendered prompt identification of the locality difficult; but a lake of very irregular triangular shape was immediately underneath the ship, and from S. round to about W.S.W., at a distance of about eight miles, extended a range of hills which, from their height, the professor easily identified as Macgillicuddy’s Reeks, the lake below being Killarney.

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The Gap of Dunloe is a gloomy mountain pass cut through the rough rocky slope in the hills between the Toomies and the Macgillicuddy's Reeks.

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