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Convection causes it to rise, causing a valley breeze. At night, the process is reversed. During the night the slopes get cooled and the dense air descends into the valley as the mountain wind. [4] These breezes occur mostly during calm and clear weather. Mountain and valley breezes are other examples of local winds caused by an area's geography.
Gaeltacht Way, Donegal (Irish: Bealach na Gaeltachta, Dún na nGall) comprises four circular long-distance trails in the Gaeltacht (Irish speaking) areas of County Donegal in Ireland.
Dun Mor (grid reference) is situated on a rocky knoll on the northern coast of island of Tiree, about 1 kilometre northwest of the hamlet of Vaul.The broch consists of a drystone tower with an internal diameter of 9.2 metres with walls about 4.5 metres thick. [1]
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An anabatic wind, from the Greek anabatos, verbal of anabainein meaning "moving upward", is a warm wind which blows up a steep slope or mountain side, driven by heating of the slope through insolation.
The Gap of Dunloe (from Irish Dún Lóich, meaning 'Lóich's stronghold'), also recorded as Bearna an Choimín (meaning "gap of the commonage" or "gap of the little hollow"), [3] is a narrow mountain pass running north–south in County Kerry, Ireland, that separates the MacGillycuddy's Reeks mountain range in the west, from the Purple Mountain Group range in the east.
Dùn Dubh, from the southeast, in about 1900. Dùn Dubh is a hillfort, located on the Inner Hebridean island of Coll.The fort is one of three associated with a local tradition which states that they were once the fortresses of Norsemen before being defeated by a Maclean chieftain.
Achill Island (/ ˈ æ k əl /; Irish: Acaill, Oileán Acla) is an island off the west coast of Ireland in the historical barony of Burrishoole, County Mayo.It is the largest of the Irish isles and has an area of approximately 148 km 2 (57 sq mi).