Slieve Donard
Slieve Donard is the highest mountain in Northern Ireland, the highest in Ulster, and the seventh-highest in Ireland, with a height of 850 metres. The highest of the Mourne Mountains, it is near the town of Newcastle on the eastern coast of County Down, overlooking the Irish Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,789 feet
- Description: mountain in County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
- Also known as: “Sliabh Donairt” and “Sliabh Dónairt”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Slieve Commedagh and Millstone Mountain.
Slieve Commedagh
Peak
Photo: Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Slieve Commedagh is a mountain with a height of 767 m in County Down, Northern Ireland. After Slieve Donard, it is the second-highest of the Mourne Mountains and the second-highest mountain in Northern Ireland.
Millstone Mountain
Peak
Photo: Raymond McSherry, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Millstone Mountain is a hill in the Mourne Mountains in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is the most easterly peak in the Mournes and, along with Thomas Mountain and Crossone, is one of the three subsidiary peaks of Slieve Donard.
Donard Park
Park
Photo: Sarahj2107, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Donard Park is a public park located in Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is next to the Glen River, which forms the boundary along one side and is at the foot of Slieve Donard, the highest mountain in Northern Ireland, part of the Mourne Mountains.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newcastle and Bryansford.
Newcastle
Photo: Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Newcastle is a seaside resort in County Down in Northern Ireland. The "new castle" was probably already tumbledown when first documented in 1433 and even its successors are long gone.
Bryansford
Hamlet
Photo: Aubrey Dale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bryansford is a small village in County Down, Northern Ireland. It sits at the northern side of Tollymore Forest Park, roughly halfway between the towns of Newcastle and Castlewellan.
Maghera
Hamlet
Maghera is a civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Iveagh Upper, Lower Half. The parish contains Maghera Churches and Round Tower, a 6th century ecclesiastical site that is now a scheduled monument and monument in state care.
Slieve Donard
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Newry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.18022° or 54° 10′ 49″ northLongitude
-5.92096° or 5° 55′ 16″ westElevation
2,789 feet (850 metres)Open location code
9C6P53JH+3JOpenStreetMap ID
node 332372503OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Western Panjabi—“Slieve Donard” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Slieve Donard”
- Breton: “Sliabh Dónairt”
- Catalan: “Slieve Donard”
- Cebuano: “Slieve Donard”
- Central Kurdish: “سلیڤ دۆنارد”
- Chinese: “唐納德山”
- Czech: “Slieve Donard”
- Dutch: “Slieve Donard”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل سليڤ دونارد”
- Finnish: “Slieve Donard”
- French: “Sliabh Dónairt”
- French: “Slieve Donard”
- Galician: “Slieve Donard”
- German: “Slieve Donard”
- Irish: “Sliabh Dónairt”
- Italian: “Sliabh Dónairt”
- Italian: “Slieve Donard”
- Japanese: “スリーヴ・ドナード”
- Korean: “슬리브도너드산”
- Ladin: “Slieve Donard”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Slieve Donard”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Slieve Donard”
- Norwegian: “Slieve Donard”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Slieve Donard”
- Polish: “Slieve Donard”
- Portuguese: “Slieve Donard”
- Russian: “Слив Донард”
- Russian: “Слив-Донард”
- Spanish: “Slieve Donard”
- Swahili: “Slieve Donard”
- Swedish: “Slieve Donard”
- Turkish: “Slieve Donard”
- Ukrainian: “Слів-Донард”
- Venetian: “Slieve Donard”
- Western Panjabi: “سلیو ڈونرڈ”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Crossone and Crannoge Quarry.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Slieve Donard”. Photo: Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0.