Slievemore () is the second highest peak on
Achill Island
Achill Island (; ) is an island off the west coast of Ireland in the historical barony of Burrishoole, County Mayo. It is the largest of the Irish isles and has an area of approximately . Achill had a population of 2,345 in the 2022 census. ...
after
Croaghaun
Croaghaun () is a mountain on Achill Island in County Mayo, Ireland. At , it has the highest sea cliffs in Ireland, as well as the third highest sea cliffs in Europe (after Hornelen, Norway, and Cape Enniberg, Faroe Islands).
Geography
Cro ...
, in
County Mayo
County Mayo (; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. In the West Region, Ireland, West of Ireland, in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht, it is named after the village of Mayo, County Mayo, Mayo, now ge ...
, Ireland. Its
elevation
The elevation of a geographic location (geography), ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational equipotenti ...
is 671 m (2,201 ft).
Archaeology
In 1991, the Achill Archaeological Field School was opened. That year, the Deserted Village Project was created to perform archaeology excavations in Slievemore.
See also
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Lists of mountains in Ireland
In these lists of mountains in Ireland, those within Northern Ireland, or on the Republic of Ireland – United Kingdom border, are marked with an asterisk, while the rest are within the Republic of Ireland. Where mountains are ranked by height ...
References
External links
mountain views.ie1994 RTÉ reportabout the deserted village
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Achill Island
Hewitts of Ireland
Marilyns of Ireland
Mountains and hills of County Mayo
Special Areas of Conservation in the Republic of Ireland
Mountains under 1000 metres