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[[File:The Fews outline map.jpg|thumb|The Fews outlined on a map of Northern Ireland]]
'''The Fews''' ({{Irish derived place name|na Feá/Feadha|the woods}})<ref name="PDI">[http://www.logainm.ie/292.aspx Placenames Database of Ireland]</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_B0Ouj5VC0C&q=fews&pg=PT66 |accessdate=24 July 2012 |title=A Dictionary of British Place-names |publisher=Oxford University Press |author=Anthony David Mills|date=9 October 2003 |isbn=9780191578472 }}</ref><ref>''A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology''. Oxford Reference.</ref> is a former [[Barony (Ireland)|Irish barony]] in [[County Armagh]], modern-day [[Northern Ireland]], based on the territory of the O'Neills of the Fews. It was at a later period divided into the baronies of [[Fews Lower]] and [[Fews Upper]].
Sometimes known as the "Highlands of South Armagh",{{According to whom|date=November 2017}} it was historically a rough and dangerous area, populated by Gaelic clans. There were only a few safe and guarded passes through these hills and they included [[Jerrettspass]] and [[Poyntzpass]], both named due to their historic role as passes through the hills and bogland. It was settled mostly by Scots with names such as McClelland, Sterritt, Morrow, Hamilton and Atkinson during the [[Plantation of Ulster]].
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