slieve

[sleev]

noun

Irish.

1. a mountain.

Example Sentences

The fire on Slieve Beagh raged for three days in May.

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Slieve Beagh has a number of designations aimed at protecting it, including Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Ramsar status and Area of Special Scientific Interest.

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Having completed a search of land in County Offaly on Tuesday, the search moved to the Slieve Bloom mountains in County Laois on Wednesday.

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Can an area around the Slieve Bloom Mountains in the Irish midlands yield a clue about what happened to Fiona Pender in the summer of 1996?

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It was found that 700m of the Mourne Wall was damaged with 63 individual collapses across six mountains, including Slieve Donard – Northern Ireland's tallest mountain.

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