Slieve Foy

Slieve Foy
Sliabh Feá
Slieve Foy viewed outside Carlingford 12-2010
Highest point
Elevation	589 m (1,932 ft) [1]
Prominence	494 [1]
Listing	Marilyn
Coordinates	54°02′40″N 6°13′05″W / 54.04444°N 6.21806°W / 54.04444; -6.21806Coordinates: 54°02′40″N 6°13′05″W / 54.04444°N 6.21806°W / 54.04444; -6.21806
Geography
Slieve Foy Location in Ireland
Location	County Louth, Ireland
Parent range	Cooley Mountains
OSI/OSNI grid	J168119
Topo map	OSi Discovery 36

Slieve Foy or Slieve Foye (Irish: Sliabh Feá) is the highest peak of a ridge of mountains collectively referred to as Carlingford Mountain, which rises near the town of Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland.

Geography

Bungalow at the foot of Slieve Foye

Slieve Foy rises to an elevation of 589 metres and is the highest peak in County Louth. The chain of mountains of which it is a part rises at The Foxes Rock (404m) and runs for roughly 6 km in a south-easterly direction, culminating in Slieve Foy itself.

Carlingford Mountain ridge is one of two ridges on the Cooley Peninsula which together make up the Cooley Mountains. Slieve Foy looks directly across Carlingford Lough to the Mourne Mountains in Ulster.

History

The area is steeped in legend, one of which is the Battle for the Brown bull of Cooley when Cú Chulainn invoked the right for single combat and fought all of Queen Medbh's forces in the narrow gully formed by a geological fault, now christened Medbh's Gap and the profile of the mountain is said to resemble a sleeping giant, thought by some to be Finn MacCumhaill (Finn McCool).

References

See also

• List of mountains in Ireland
• List of Irish counties by highest point

Media related to Slieve Foye at Wikimedia Commons

Mountains and hills of Leinster
List of mountains in Ireland List of mountains and hills of County Dublin
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Cooley Mountains	Clermont Carn Slieve Foy
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