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n. A hill or mountain.
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Croagh is a picturesque small village in County Limerick, Ireland. It is located on the road between Rathkeale and Adare which was part of the N21 national primary road before it was bypassed. It is 14 miles from Limerick city. "Croagh" is from the Irish word "cruach," which is a hill or mountain.
The village is in the agricultural area known as the Golden Vale. The village itself is one of the widest in County Limerick, with a park, a monastery, nursing home, music school, restaurant, hostel, garden centre, church, school, shop, 2 pubs, hall, an indoor Gaelic Athletic Association alley and 2 GAA pitches.
Usage examples of "croagh".
There the Croagh begins its climb, wrapping about Graymark as it passes, then rising on.
Only way to reach the Croagh is through Graymark-right through the walkers and whatever serves them.
The Croagh wound down into this darkness, into a mass of trees, vines, scrub, and choking brush, grown so thick that the light could not penetrate.
Arms flailing, the creature flew from the Croagh to drop like a stone into the valley below.
Other dark forms stood upon the Croagh above him-two more of the black things and behind them a robed figure, tall and hooded.
Flames and smoke geysered skyward from the stem of the Croagh, and bits of shattered rock flew everywhere.
Backed against the stone stairway of the Croagh, it tried to slip left, with fire bursting from its fingers.
Slowly the smoke drifted away and the whole of the ledge and the Croagh became visible once more.
The ledge was littered with broken rock, and an entire section of the Croagh where it joined to the ledge-where the Mord Wraith had been standing when Cogline had challenged it-was gone.
A line of shadows appeared on the stairway of the Croagh, stooped and shrouded in the fading half-light of the late afternoon.
The walkers crouched on the stone stairway of the Croagh, a line of dark forms winding down out of the cliffs and fortress above, shrouded in smoke and mist against the gray backdrop of the dying afternoon sky.
Thunder rocked the mountainside, and whole sections of the Croagh flew apart, carrying the dark forms of the Mord Wraiths with them.
All along the length of the Croagh leading down to the ledge where Rone had struggled to hold them, the Wraiths convulsed like shaken rag dolls.
Through the webbing of limbs and vines overhead, she could see the rim of the mountains that ringed the valley pit, but the stem of the Croagh lay wrapped in darkness against their backdrop.
Only Garet Jax had been left where he had fallen, for with the destruction of the Croagh, all passage to Heaven’s Well had been cut off.