Beltra

Beltra (Irish: Béal Trá, meaning "Strand at the Mouth") is a village in County Sligo, Ireland. Beltra is situated between the Ox Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. There is a public house named AJ's situated near Beltra woods and Beltra Post Office owned and managed by the Murray family. Farming, haulage and construction are the major source of employment in Beltra. Beltra has an annual agricultural show each September.

History

The village takes its name from the beach nearby along the western shore of Ballysadare bay. There are several old names for the strand, the most common being Trá Eóchaille, Strand of the Yew Wood, or after Eochaille the wright. Trá Ruis Airgid Strand of Red Silver perhaps because of the silver and lead mine at Abbeytown near Ballysadare. The mine contains the mineral Pyrargyrite an ore also known as "dark red silver" or "ruby silver". Other names are Trá Mná Mairbe Strand of the Dead Women, Trá an Cháirn Strand of the Cairn.

In Irish mythology, the Firbolg King Eochaid mac Eirc met his death here after the first Battle of Moytura. The king was buried here in a cairn that existed on the strand known as "the stone-heap of the Strand of Eothail". Also killed and buried here were the three sons of Nemed, i.e., Cesarb, Luamh, and Luachra, leaders of the pursuing Tuatha de Danaan. They were interred at the west end of the strand, at a place since called Leca Mic Nemed, or the grave-slab of the sons of Nemed.

List of craters on Mars: A-G

This is a list of craters on Mars. There are hundreds of thousands of impact craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. This list here only contains named Martian craters starting with the letter A – G (see also lists for H – N and O – Z).

Large Martian craters (greater than 60 km in diameter) are named after famous scientists and science fiction authors; smaller ones (less than 60 km in diameter) get their names from towns on Earth. Craters cannot be named for living people, and small crater names are not intended to be commemorative - that is, a small crater isn't actually named after a specific town on Earth, but rather its name comes at random from a pool of terrestrial place names, with some exceptions made for craters near landing sites. Latitude and longitude are given as planetographic coordinates with west longitude.

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