Slieve Rushen
Slieve Rushen is a mountain which straddles the border between County Cavan in the Republic of Ireland and County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. It is also called Slieve Russell or Ligavegra.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 404 metres
- Description: mountain in Ireland
- Also known as: “Slieve Russell”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bawnboy and Ballyconnell.
Bawnboy
Village
Photo: Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bawnboy is a small village and townland in a valley at the foot of Slieve Rushen, between Ballyconnell and Swanlinbar, in County Cavan, Ireland. A synod of the Catholic Provincial Council of Armagh was held in Owengallees, Baunbuidhe, on 25 May 1669 where The Most Rev.
Ballyconnell
Town
Photo: Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Belturbet is a small town on the River Erne in County Cavan, with a population in 2022 of about 1600. In Irish it's Béal Tairbirt, "mouth of the isthmus", and it grew up at a ford on the river. Boating and angling are the main reasons to visit.
Swanlinbar
Village
Photo: Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Swanlinbar referred to locally as Swad, is a small village on the N87 national secondary road in north-west County Cavan, Ireland, close to the Cladagh river and near the Fermanagh border.
Slieve Rushen
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: County Cavan, Ulster, Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.15286° or 54° 9′ 10″ northLongitude
-7.64136° or 7° 38′ 29″ westElevation
404 metres (1,325 feet)Open location code
9C6J5935+4FOpenStreetMap ID
node 332373328OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Slieve Rushen” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Slieve Rushen”
- Dutch: “Slieve Rushen”
- French: “Slieve Rushen”
- Irish: “Sliabh Roisean”
- Irish: “Sliabh Roisín”
- Irish: “Sliabh Rosín”
- Ladin: “Slieve Rushen”
- Swedish: “Slieve Rushen”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Finthilough and Carricknabrock.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Slieve Rushen Bog and Corneen.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Slieve Rushen”. Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.