Every Mourne summit
- SUMMITS
- 52
- HIGHEST
- 850m
- SPREAD
- 22km
AT A GLANCE
- Highest
- Slieve Donard, 850 m
- Lowest
- Slievenalargy, 280 m
- Groups
- 5 by group
- Updated
All 52 summits
About Every Mourne summit
The Mourne Mountains are a compact granite range in County Down, between Newcastle, Hilltown, Rostrevor and Kilkeel, and the highest in Northern Ireland. This list is every summit in the range, down to the small tops between the big ones: 52 in all, 18 of them over 600 m. For the 14 that most walkers mean by the Mournes, see The Mourne Mountains.
Which hills count, and the five groups they fall in, follow MountainViews' Mourne Mountains area: the northern (9, topped by Slieve Commedagh), the eastern (13, topped by Slieve Donard), the central (8, topped by Slieve Muck), the western (16, topped by Eagle Mountain) and the southern (6, topped by Finlieve). Slieve Croob and the hills round it are left out: they share the Mourne Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, but they're a separate range north of Castlewellan.
The Mourne Wall ties many of them together: a dry-stone wall over 30 km long across some fifteen summits, built between 1904 and 1922 round the catchment of the Silent Valley reservoir.
Data: The Database of British and Irish Hills v18.6, CC BY 4.0, adapted by Pinhead.
QUESTIONS
How many mountains are in the Mournes?
52 summits on this list, 18 of them over 600 m. Other counts run from about a dozen, for the big separate summits, to nearly 90 if every lesser top is counted.
What is the highest mountain in the Mournes?
Slieve Donard, at 850 m. It is also the highest mountain in Northern Ireland.
What are the Seven Sevens?
Seven of the highest Mourne summits, often walked in one long day: Slieve Donard, Slieve Commedagh, Slieve Binnian, Slieve Bearnagh, Slievelamagan, Slieve Meelbeg and Slieve Meelmore. Pinhead has them as a list of their own.
Is Slieve Croob in the Mournes?
It's in the same Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, but it's a separate range north of Castlewellan, so it isn't on this list.
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