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The range was named for Sir St George Gore, 8th Baronet, an Irish hunter who visited the area in the 1850s on a notorious hunting expedition throughout the American West. Gore's three-year stopover in the American West had him traversing what is today the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado.
Goresbridge is named after a 1756 bridge, built by Colonel Ralph Gore, which provides a crossing of the River Barrow between County Kilkenny and County Carlow in the South-East region. Located 2.75 miles (4.43 km) from Gowran on the R702 ( Kilkenny − Enniscorthy ) regional road , and approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Kilkenny.
The Mourne Mountains (/ m ɔːr n / MORN; Irish: Beanna Boirche), also called the Mournes or the Mountains of Mourne, are a predominantly granite mountain range in County Down in the south-east of Northern Ireland. [1] They include the highest mountain in all of Ulster, Slieve Donard at 850 m (2,790 ft). [2]
After Colonel Thomas Bourke had fought on the side of King James II & VII in the Williamite Wars, the property was forfeited and given to the Gore family, afterwards Earls of Arran, who renamed it Castle Gore. [1] The tower house had a large 18th-century wing with a rusticated doorway added to it; possibly incorporating a 17th-century range.
Gores Island, also known as Gore's Island, is an island in Strangford Lough, County Down, Northern Ireland.It is connected to nearby Castle Island, and thence to the mainland, by a narrow roadway (doran) that is passable only at low tides.
Slieve Donard (/ ˌ s l iː v ˈ d ɒ n ər d / SLEEV DON-ərd; from Irish Sliabh Dónairt, meaning 'Dónairt's mountain') [4] is the highest mountain in Northern Ireland, the highest in Ulster and the seventh-highest in Ireland, [1] [5] with a height of 850 metres (2,790 ft).
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The Gore Baronetcy, of Newtown in the County of Mayo, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 10 April 1662 for Arthur Gore. He was the 2nd son of the 1st Baronet (1622 creation). His great-grandson and namesake, [5] the 3rd Baronet, was in 1762 elevated to the peerage as Earl of Arran. [6]