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  • proper noun the area of the Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of Ireland bounded by Saint George's Channel, the Bristol Channel, the English Channel, and the Bay of Biscay

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Examples

  • The biennial race takes the fleet 608 miles along the south coast of the UK, across the Celtic Sea to the Fastnet Rock off south west Ireland, before returning around the Scilly Isles to the finish in Plymouth.

    Fastnet race yacht capsizes off Ireland 2011

  • He came after Sarah once and I told him that if he ever did that again, I was going to strap bricks to his legs, drag him back to his native Ireland, and throw him in the Celtic Sea.

    Mickey 2010

  • At its annual analyst meeting in New York yesterday, Exxon said it expects to drill speculative, high-risk wells in the Celtic Sea south of Cork, Ireland, off the western coast of Greenland, south of New Zealand and north of Madagascar.

    Exxon to Boost Spending, 2008

  • She stared out the front windows of their little stone house at the enormous white caps forming on the ever-darkening Celtic Sea.

    Blowback Brad Thor 2005

  • She stared out the front windows of their little stone house at the enormous white caps forming on the ever-darkening Celtic Sea.

    Blowback Brad Thor 2005

  • Through the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, the English Channel, then the Dragon had crossed the famous starting point of transatlantic voyages in the Celtic Sea—490N 70W—and had begun steaming southwest toward Long Island, New York.

    The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002

  • Through the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, the English Channel, then the Dragon had crossed the famous starting point of transatlantic voyages in the Celtic Sea — 49°N 7°W — and had begun steaming southwest toward Long Island, New York.

    The Stone Monkey Deaver, Jeffery 2002

  • Through the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, the English Channel, then the Dragon had crossed the famous starting point of transatlantic voyages in the Celtic Sea—490N 70W—and had begun steaming southwest toward Long Island, New York.

    The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002

  • Through the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, the English Channel, then the Dragon had crossed the famous starting point of transatlantic voyages in the Celtic Sea—490N 70W—and had begun steaming southwest toward Long Island, New York.

    The Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002

  • Through the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, the English Channel, then the Dragon had crossed the famous starting point of transatlantic voyages in the Celtic Sea—490N 70W—and had begun steaming southwest toward Long Island, New York.

    A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set Jeffery Deaver 2001

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