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the county of Galway, and the adjoining part of Clare, in 

 Ireland. 



SLIEBH-BLOOM, or Slie-ELGOM, a mountaiM in 

 Ireland, or rather a chain of mountains, of confiderable 

 extent, dividing the King's and Queen's counties, and ex- 

 tending into the county of Tipperary. It is about 25 miles 

 in length, and, in feme parts, 10 miles broad, at the bafe. 

 It is very unequal in lieight. Some few ridges are of confi- 

 derable altitude, efpecially thofe which divide Eli O Carrol 

 from OlTory. One of thefe is called Ard-Erin, i. e. the 

 higheft part of Ireland. This, however, is very doubtful, 

 as it is probable that no accurate comparifon on the fub- 

 jeft has been ever made. Slie-blooin affords, in general, 

 good padurage, and in fome parts, like many other Irifli 

 mountains, is green to the funimit ; but in other parts it is 

 rocky, wild, and inacceffible, infomuch that wolves are faid 

 to have found harbour in its caverns later than in any 

 other part of the kingdom, even within the lad century. 



Some of the declivities of this mountain yield good corn, 

 and are highly improved by plantations, and gentlemen's feats 

 which command very extenfive and pitlurefque views. It 

 is remarkable for the number of fine rivers that fpring 

 from it. Three of thefe form an inteiefting fubjeft to 

 poets as well as geojrraphers. " Near Offory," fays Cam- 

 den, " are thofe huge copling mountains named Slieiv-blamy, 

 which Giraldus calls Blad'inx Monies-, of a vail height, out 

 of the bowels whereof fpring three rivers, the Suire, the 

 Nore, and the Barrow. Thefe defcend in three feveral 

 channels, but join in one before they fall into the fea, wliich 

 made the ancients call them the Three Sillers." 



It may be oblerved, that the moderns likewife call them 

 fillers, although Spenfer reprefents them as brothers, the 

 fons of the giant Bloemius and the nymph Rheufa, born in 

 the mountain Slew-bloome ; and the poet thus dcfcribes their 

 courfes and final confluence. 



•' Thefe three fair fons, which being tlienceforth powr'd, 

 In three great rivers ran, and many countreis icowr'd. 

 The firll, the gentle Shurc, that, making way 

 By fweet Clonmel, adornes rich Waterford ; 

 The next, the llubborn Newre, whofe waters gray, 

 By faire Kilkenny and Roifeponte boord ; 

 The third, the goodly Barrow, which doth hoord 

 Great heaps of falmons in iiis deepe bofome : 

 All which, long fundred, doe at lad accord 

 To ione in one ere to the fea they come ; 

 So, flowing all from one, all one at lall become." 



Faille Queen, book iv. canto xi. 



For a more particular account of the three fillers of Slic- 

 bloom, fee Bauuow, NoRii, and Suike ; and for a delcrip- 

 tion of the foil, quarries, &c. of this mountain, fee King'j 

 and Queen'/ Counties. 



SLIEBH-BONN Mountains, a range of mountain! 

 in the county of Rofcommon, Ireland, extending nearly 

 parallel to the Shannon, at a few miles ditlance, from Rufl<y- 

 bridge to Lanelborough. 



SLIEBH-BUY Mountains, a mountainous tract in 

 the county of Wexford, Ireland, near tlie borders of 

 Wicklow. 



SLIEBH-CROOB Mountains, in the county of 

 Down, Ireland, north of the Mourne mountains, and lying 

 between Bally nahinch and Caitlewellan. 



SLIEBH-DH.-VM, a mountainous range in the weftcrn 

 part of the county of Sligo, Ireland, being part of the 

 ridge to which Arrowfmith has given the name of Knock- 

 na-ree. 



SLIEBH-DONARD, one of the Mourne mountains, 



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in the county of Down, Ireland, faid to be the higheft of 

 them, and to be 2800 feet in height. See Moukne. 



SLIEBH-GALLAN, a duller of hilh; in the fouth of 

 the county of Londonderry, Ireland ; about 1250 feet 

 above the level of the fea. 



SLIEBK-GULLIEN, in the fouth-eail of the county 

 of Armagli, Ireland, which is thought to be nearly as high 

 as Sliebh-Donard ; and which, like it, confills of granite. It 

 has a cairn on the fummit. 



SLIEBH-LEAGUE Mountains, a cluftcr which oc- 

 cupies the peninfula welt of Killybegs, in the county of 

 Donegal, Ireland ; called by Arrowfuiith S/t-avi-long. 



SLIEBH-LOGHER Mountain.-;, in the county of 

 Kerry, Ireland, on the borders of the county of Cork. 

 Spenfer has reprefented this range as the fource of the river 

 Allow : 



" Strong Alio tumbling from Slicbh-Logher fteep :" 



but in this he departs from geograpliical accuracy, as the 

 Allow takes its rife in the Limerick mountains, and the 

 Blackwater pafles under Sliebh-Logher, from which it re- 

 ceives a large fupply of water. See Blackwater. 



SLIEBH-MISH, a range of hills fouth of Tralee, in 

 the county of Kerry, Ireland. 



SLIEBH-MORE, a mountain in Achil ifland, county 

 of Mayo, Ireland. 



SLIEBH-NA-COILTRA Mountains, a range in 

 the county of Wexford, Ireland, fouth of tlie town of 

 New Rofs. 



SLIEBH-NA-MAN, a high mountain of the county of 

 Tipperary, Ireland, not far from the Nine-mile houle, on 

 the road from Clonmel to Kilkenny. 



SLIEBH-NA-MUCK, a range of hills N. of the 

 Galtees, in the county of Tipperary, Ireland, extendino- 

 eaft and well, and lying fouthward of the town of Tip- 

 perary. 



SLIEBH-RUSSEL, a mountain of the county of Ca- 

 van, Ireland, near Swanlinbar. 



SLIEBH-SNAGHT, a mountain of the county of 

 Donegal, Ireland, in tlie peninfula of Inifhowen. 



SLIGO, a county of Ireland, in the province of Cou- 

 naught, bounded on the E. by tlie county of Leitrim, on 

 the S. by Rofcommon, on the S.W. and W. by Mayo, 

 and on tlie N. by the bay of Donegal. Its greatell length, 

 from Bunduif in the N. to the Curlew mountains in the S. 

 1331 Irifh (39^ Enghfh) mileB, and the grcateit breadth 

 29 Irifh (37 Englilli) miles. It contains 247,150 acres, or 

 386 fquare miles, Irifli meaiure, equal to 397,060 acres, or 

 620 fquare miles, Englifli. The number of houfes was 

 11,509, fsppofed to contain 60,000 inhabitants; but the 

 documents on which this is ilated were very imperfetl, and 

 the increafe mull have been incoiifiderable. Tlicre are 39 

 parifhes, of which 16 only had churches when Dr. Beau- 

 fort pubhihed his valuable work ; they lie in the bifhoprics 

 of Eiphin, Achonry, Killalla, and Ardagh. This county 

 and the town of Sligo are reprefented in parliament by three 

 members. 



Sligo contains very good land, intermixed with large 

 tratis of coarfe and unprofitable ground. In the northern 

 dillridt, lying between the county of Leitrim and the fea, 

 are the mountains of Beiibulb and Samore. A chain of 

 rough hills extends from Lonijh Gilly to the bounds of 

 Rofcommon and Leitrim. The barony of Tyreragh, 

 though level along the coall, is interfedled by large bogs ; 

 and the fonthern part of it is bounded by the Ox mountain, 

 Sliebh-Dliam, and a great range of defolate hills, that ex- 

 tend acrofs tlie middle of the country ; wliilfl the Curlews 



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