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Cnoc an Fhreiceadain is modest in height at 1008 feet, but offers dramatic Old Red Sandstone conglomorate cliffs, and impressive views along the north coast of Scotland, from Durness to Orkney.
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Cnoc and Fhreiceadain
* It was featured in a Top Gear episode where Jeremy Clarkson drives a Land Rover Discovery up Cnoc an Fhreiceadain.
Jeremy Clarkson of the BBC's Top Gear motoring show drove one to the top of Cnoc an Fhreiceadain, a mountain near Tongue in northern Scotland, where no vehicle had previously reached.
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Cnoc Fírinne ( meaning ' Hill of Truth ') takes its name from Donn, who is said to forewarn the local people of bad weather by gathering up rain clouds around him on the hill.
She is also associated with sites such as Toberanna (), County Tyrone ; Dunany (), County Louth ; Lissan (), County Londonderry ; and Cnoc Áine near Teelin, County Donegal.
About seven miles from Áine ’ s hill, Cnoc Áine ( Knockainy ) in County Limerick, is the hill of the goddess Grian, Cnoc Gréine.
She is said to be buried at the summit of Cnoc Meadha, six miles south-west of Tuam, County Galway ( Lynch, 2006 ).
It is likely that his reign ended as a result of his defeat at the hands of the Picts of Fortriu, led by Talorgan mac Fergusa, brother of Óengus, at " Cnoc Cairpri in Calathros at Etarlinde ".
According to legend, Medb is buried in a high stone cairn on the summit of Knocknarea ( Cnoc na Ré in Irish ) in County Sligo.
Knock (, meaning The Hill – but now more generally known in Irish as Cnoc Mhuire, " Hill of ( the Virgin ) Mary ") is a village in County Mayo, Ireland.
In Strathnairn, Scotland there is a hill, known as Brin Mains, but which is known in Scottish Gaelic as " Cnoc nan Cnàimhseag " which means " The hill of the Bearberries ".
The mountain is most often climbed from the north-east, along the Hag's Glen and up the steep Devil's Ladder to the col between Carrauntoohil and Cnoc na Péiste, and then north-west to the summit.
The boar is believed to have had its lair in the vicinity of Knockane or “ Cnoc na Chollag ” ( Hill of the Boar ) and the animal is believed to have laid waste to the area between Knockane and Killamucky or “ Choill na Mhuice ” ( the Wood of the Pig ).
A prominent hill called Cnoc Samhna " Hill of Samhain " also known as Ard na Ríoghraidhe " Height of the Kingfolk " south of Bruree, County Limerick is associated with a tale connected to Mongfind.
She is placed in the alternate version encamped at Cnoc Samhna ( Knocksouna ) i. e. Ard na Ríoghraidhe, which may have been the inauguration site of the Uí Fidgenti.
Knock, from the Gaelic, An Cnoc ( a small hill ), is a village in Point peninsula on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
This monument is reached via the wooded Glen Lednock ( Scots Gaelic: Gleann Leathad Cnoc ) in which are to be found the Falls of Lednock or De ' ils Cauldron.
Mount Florida ( Gaelic: Cnoc Florida ) is an area in the southeastern corner of the Scottish city of Glasgow.
The low hill on the other side of the bay is the imaginatively named Cnoc Mòr (' big lump ')
Haghill ( Gaelic: Cnoc na Caillich ) is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow.
Govanhill ( Gaelic: Cnoc a ' Ghobhainn ) is a district in the Scottish city of Glasgow.
Priesthill ( Gaelic: Cnoc an t-Sagairt ) is a district south of the River Clyde in the Scottish city of Glasgow.
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She owned at one time half the townland of Scrahanaveal, which, however, under the stress of circumstances, she relinquished, and came to dwell at Cnoc an Chorrfhiaidh, also called Stagmount ...
In another widely publicised case, on 5 March 2008 a jury found Brian Kearney guilty of the murder of his wife, Siobhán Kearney, at their home in Cnoc na Sí, Goatstown in February 2006.
Cnoc and Red
The River Ruchill ( Gaelic: An Ruadh thuill, The Red Flood ) and The River Lednock ( Scots Gaelic: An Leathad Cnoc, The Wooded Knoll ) are both tributaries of the Earn ( Gaelic: Uisge Éireann ), which itself eventually feeds into the Tay ( Gaelic: Uisge Tatha ).
Cnoc and Scotland
** Cnoc Coinnich, 761m ( Joint Biggest Graham in Scotland, 1m away from a Corbett )
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* Knocknashane ( formerly Knocknashangan, from Cnoc na Seangán meaning " hill of the ants ")
Additionally, the water used for production, from Cnoc nan Speireag ( Hawk Hill ), flows over peat which adds additional peatiness to the whisky.
* Knockmenagh ( from Cnoc Meánach )
* Knockerasser ( from Cnoc ar Easair )
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On the top of Knockfarrel ( Gaelic: Cnoc Fhearghalaigh ), a hill about three miles ( 5 km ) to the west, stands a large and very complete vitrified fort with ramparts.
* Galway City West ( 5 seats ), consisting of the electoral divisions of Bearna, Claddagh, Cnoc na Cathrach, Rockbarton, Salthill, Taylors Hill.
There are three main peaks, the Beinn Rodagraich range ( 99m ) in the south, the Beinn a ' Chàrnain range in the east ( 115m ) which incorporates Cnoc Mòr and Beinn an t-Sagairt, and the third in Ronaigh Beag, which rises to 74m.
The settlement consists of the following townlands: Cnocán an Bhodaigh, an Straidhp, an tSaoirsin, Baile na hAbhann, na Poillíní, Doire Uachtair, Aill an Phréacháin, an Coisméig Mór, na Forbacha Garbha, Seanadh Fhréachóg, and Cnoc na Gréine.
The steeply sloping Cnoc na Bhain burial ground, one of Scotland's most beautiful graveyards, contains a memorial and grave of the pioneer aviator, Captain Bertram Dickson.
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If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.
The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.
Our problem, therefore, is to devise processes more modest in their aspirations, adjusted to the real world of sovereign nation states and diverse and hostile communities.
His very honest act called up the recent talk I had with another minister, a modest Methodist, who said: `` I feel so deeply blessed by God when I can give a message of love and comfort to other men, and I would have it no other way: and it is unworthy to think of self.
It is in fact entirely consistent with your suggestion of modest industrial development to help pay governmental costs.
With our current $3 per hundred tax rate, it is safe to assume that this will qualify when you suggest a community should `` try to develop a modest industrial plant '' as the best way to meet these problems.
Here, then, is what Swift would have called a modest proposal by way of a beginning.
I therefore believe it is realistic to assume a modest drop in the total value of home entertainment electronics to about $1.8 million, slightly below 1960, but above 1959.
Although the pause in the advance of general business activity this year has thus far been quite modest, it is hard to escape the conclusion that the softening process will continue into the first quarter of 1961 and possibly somewhat longer.
One of the reasons for the high percentage of Jewish teen-agers in college is that a great many urban Jews are enabled to attend local colleges at modest cost.
Either here, or in one of the modest restaurants nearby, is just the place to end this first walk through the heart of Rome.
`` This is a very modest proposal cut to meet absolutely essential needs '', he said, `` and with sufficient ' deductible ' requirements to discourage any malingering or unnecessary overcrowding of our hospitals.
He has a pleasant sense of humor and is modest enough to admit mistakes and even `` a cardinal error ''.
A semi-serious literary document entitled `` The Wings Of Henry James '' is noteworthy, if only for a keenly trenchant though little-known comment on the master's difficult later period by modest Owen Wister, author of `` The Virginian ''.
From actions aboard, it is easy to guess that Spencer's boast of twenty staunch followers was a modest estimate ''.
In English writing, the phrase " a modest proposal " is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.
For example, if an author is paid a modest advance of $ 2000. 00, and their royalty rate is 10 % of a book priced at $ 20. 00-that is, $ 2. 00 per book-the book will need to sell 1000 copies before any further payment will be made.
) there is no evidence that he ever bore the name Octavianus, as it would have made his modest origins too obvious.
A more modest " daily solar " design is very practical.
Ohlmeyer presumably based his reaction on Costas ' modest stature ( Costas is 5 ' 7 " in height ) and boyish, babyfaced appearance.
) While the monarch retains some powers from the constitution, most particular is lèse majesté which protects the image and ability of the monarch to play a role in politics and carries modest criminal penalties for violators.
" A modest man, but then he has so much to be modest about ", is a quote about Attlee that is very commonly ascribed to Churchill ( although Churchill in fact denied saying it, and respected Attlee's service in the War Cabinet ).
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