Silvermines
Silvermines, historically known as Bellagowan, is a village in County Tipperary in Ireland. It lies immediately north of the Silvermine mountain range and takes its name from the extensive mines of lead, zinc, copper, baryte and silver nearby.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Silvermine Mountains.
Silvermine Mountains
Peak
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The Silvermine Mountains or Silvermines Mountains are a mountain range in County Tipperary, Ireland. The highest peak of the range is Keeper Hill or Slievekimalta at 694 metres high.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dolla and Nenagh.
Dolla
Village
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Dolla is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland, at the crossroads of the R497 and R499 regional roads. It is located at the foot of the northern flank of the Silvermine Mountains, 8 km south of Nenagh. Dolla is situated 3 km east of Silvermines.
Nenagh
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Nenagh is a market town in County Tipperary, Ireland: in Irish it's Aonach Urmhumhan, the market Fair of Ormond. Tipperary was from 1838 divided into a north and south riding, but this was abolished in 2014, so Nenagh became the county town jointly with Clonmel and had a population in 2022 of 9900.
Silvermines
- Type: Village with 310 residents
- Description: village in Munster, Ireland
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: County Tipperary, Munster, Shannon Region, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.79288° or 52° 47′ 34″ northLongitude
-8.23872° or 8° 14′ 19″ westPopulation
310Elevation
112 metres (367 feet)Open location code
9C4HQQV6+5GOpenStreetMap ID
node 52246021OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2961475Wikidata ID
Q2670546
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Silvermines” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Silvermines”
- Bulgarian: “Силверминес”
- Cebuano: “Silvermines”
- Dutch: “Silvermines”
- German: “Silvermines”
- Irish: “Béal Átha Gabhann”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Silvermines”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Silvermines”
- Norwegian: “Silvermines”
- Polish: “Silvermines”
- Russian: “Силвермайнс”
- Spanish: “Silvermines”
- Swedish: “Silvermines”
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Highlights include Church of Our Lady of Lourdes and Cuan Mhuire.
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