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The highest paved road in Slovakia. 1853 m [8] Galdhøpiggvegen: Jotunheimen Norway: Dead end: Bøverdalen & Juvasshytta: Highest road in Norway as well as Northern Europe. The road is private but usable by the public and paved. The last 9 km are tolled.
The Pico del Veleta road. This is a list of the highest paved roads in Europe.It includes roads that are at least 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) long and whose culminating point is at least 2,000 metres (6,562 feet) above sea level.
Slige Midluachra is the old northern road sometimes known High Kings Road that ran in ancient times from the Tara, Ireland to Dunseverick on the north coast of Northern Ireland. It was one of the legendary Five Roads of Tara , site of the ancient Seat of Ireland's High Kings .
A1 near Newry. The main roads in Northern Ireland are signed "M"/"A"/"B" as in Great Britain.Whereas the roads in Great Britain are numbered according to a zonal system, there is no available explanation for the allocation of road numbers in Northern Ireland, [1] though their numbering is separate from the system in England, Scotland and Wales.
The island of Ireland, comprising Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, has an extensive network of tens of thousands of kilometres of public roads, usually surfaced. These roads have been developed and modernised over centuries, from trackways suitable only for walkers and horses, to surfaced roads including modern motorways .
The Antrim coast road near Glenarm Breakers on Antrim Coast near Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, with cliffs of Fair Head.Scotland appears in the distance on clear days. The Antrim Coast and Glens is an area of County Antrim in Northern Ireland, designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1988.
The Glenshane Pass, part of the A6 Belfast to Derry road, is in the mountains and has notoriously bad weather in winter. Sawel Mountain is the highest peak in the Sperrins, and the seventh highest in Northern Ireland. Its summit rises to 678 m (2,224 ft). Another of the Sperrins, Carntogher (464 m), towers over the Glenshane Pass. [4]
It is the highest known passage tomb in Britain and Ireland. [11] The Lesser Cairn lies 210 metres to the northeast, overlooking Newcastle. It measures about 4.5 m (14 ft 9 in) high, 18 m (59 ft) from north to south, and 16 m (52 ft) from east to west. It appears to have been an Early Bronze Age multiple-cist cairn, dating to 2300–1950 BC. [11]