Mourne Mountains
The Mourne Mountains, usually just referred to as "The Mournes", are the highest peaks of Northern Ireland. They are dramatic and form the background to the south of County Down.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 1,194 feet
- Description: mountain range in County Down, Northern Ireland, UK
- Also known as: “Mountains of Mourne” and “the Mournes”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Spelga Reservoir.
Spelga Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Bananenfalter, CC0.
Spelga Reservoir is a reservoir in the townland of Spelga in the Mourne Mountains of County Down, Northern Ireland. It was formed by the Spelga Dam and sits at over 1,200 ft above sea level.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hilltown.
Hilltown
Village
Hilltown is a small village within the townland of Carcullion in County Down, Northern Ireland. Hilltown is the main village of the parish of Clonduff which contains the village and the rural areas around it at one end, and the rural enclave of Cabra at the other end of the parish.
Mourne Mountains
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Mourne Mountains” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mourne Mountains”
- Basque: “Mourne mendiak”
- Cebuano: “Mourne Mountains”
- Chinese: “蒙恩山脈”
- Czech: “Mourne Mountains”
- Danish: “Mourne Mountains”
- Dutch: “Mourne Mountains”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبال مورن”
- French: “Montagnes de Mourne”
- French: “Mourne Mountains”
- German: “Mountains of Mourne”
- German: “Mourne Mountains”
- Indonesian: “Pegunungan Mourne”
- Irish: “Beanna Boirche”
- Irish: “Na Beanna Boirche”
- Italian: “montagne di Mourne”
- Italian: “Montagne di Mourne”
- Italian: “Mournes”
- Japanese: “モーン山地”
- Korean: “몬산맥”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mourne Mountains”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mourne-fjellene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mournefjellene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mourne Mountains”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mournefjella”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mournes”
- Norwegian: “Mournefjellene”
- Persian: “کوههای مورن”
- Polish: “Góry Mourne”
- Polish: “Mourne Mountains”
- Russian: “Морн”
- Russian: “Моурн”
- Spanish: “Montanas de Mourne”
- Spanish: “Montañas de Mourne”
- Spanish: “Monte de Mourne”
- Spanish: “Montes de Mourne”
- Spanish: “Montes de Mournes”
- Spanish: “Mournes”
- Swedish: “Mournebergen”
- Swedish: “Mournefjällen”
- Turkish: “Mourne Dağları”
- Venetian: “montagne de Mourne”
- Welsh: “Mynyddoedd Mourne”
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