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  • They left the Cave and they turned south, and they went on and on till they came to the mountain that is called Slieve-na-Mon.

    The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said Padraic Colum 1926

  • 10 Slieve Aughty which WBY variously referred to as Slieve Echtge, Echtge Hills, and Slieve Ochta is a range of mountains east of Gort and south of Loughrea, Co. Galway.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • I use, for instance, "Slieve" for "Sliabh," because it comes so often, and a mispronunciation would spoil so many names.

    Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

  • Blackbird flying towards the mountain that is called Slieve-na-Mon, and my grandfather told my father who told me. "

    The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said Padraic Colum 1926

  • A man last known to be residing outside Knockniry in the moorland isolation of the Slieve Aughty Mountains.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • We were broken in gently too, trekking across hills, streams and forests in the remote foothills of the Slieve Aughty mountains with attentive, charming instructors.

    Summer holidays: Top 10 places for over-fives 2011

  • Tracks leading up into the scrubby, windswept highlands of the Slieve Aughty and down toward silty creek beds and swift rivers flowing south and west toward Lough Derg and the Shannon.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • But Slieve Aughty, a family-run riding centre in County Galway, is far from haughty.

    Summer holidays: Top 10 places for over-fives 2011

  • A man last known to be residing outside Knockniry in the moorland isolation of the Slieve Aughty Mountains.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • Tracks leading up into the scrubby, windswept highlands of the Slieve Aughty and down toward silty creek beds and swift rivers flowing south and west toward Lough Derg and the Shannon.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

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