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A glen is a valley, typically one that is long, deep, and often glacially U-shaped, or a waterway running through such a valley. The word comes from the Irish Language/Scottish Gaelic language word gleann or glion in Manx. As the name of a river, it is thought to derive from the Welsh language glan meaning clean, or gleindid meaning purity.

It occurs often in place names such as Great Glen in Scotland, Glendalough in Ireland, Glengowrie in Australia and Glen Norman in Canada.

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