Slieve True or Slievetrue ()
is a hill in
County Antrim
County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, ) is one of six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and has a population o ...
,
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
. It is near
Knockagh Monument
The Knockagh Monument is a war memorial in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is located on top of Knockagh Hill, above the village of Greenisland with a panoramic view of the city of Belfast.
Features
The site is 390m (1230 feet) above sea le ...
and
Monkstown, about north of
Belfast
Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdom ...
.
Slieve True derives its name from three standing stones (known as "The Three Brothers") about southwest of the summit.
These have since been integrated into a field wall. There is also a
cairn in the area.
In May 2013, Irish electricity company Gaelectric opened a
wind farm
A wind farm or wind park, also called a wind power station or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind turb ...
in the Carn Hill area of Slievetrue, consisting of six wind turbines at a total cost of £20 million.
References
Mountains and hills of County Antrim
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