Slieve Meelmore

Slieve Meelmore
Slieve Meelmore and its Spellack spur
Highest point
Elevation680 m (2,230 ft)
Prominence109 m (358 ft)
ListingMarilyn
Geography
LocationCounty Down, Northern Ireland
Parent rangeMourne Mountains
OSI/OSNI gridJ30580 28689

Slieve Meelmore is one of the Mourne Mountains in County Down, Northern Ireland. It rises to 680 m (2230 ft) and is the seventh-highest of the Mournes. To its south is Slieve Meelbeg and to its east is Slieve Bearnagh. The Mourne Wall passes over its summit.

Slieve Meelmore is a popular hiking destination and is six miles (ten kilometres) east of the village of Hilltown.

The seventh "Seven"

The mountain is mistakenly referred to as the seventh "Seven" in the annual Mourne Sevens challenge walk. This one-day event requires participating hillwalkers to visit all summits in the Mourne Mountains that are higher than 700 m (2,300 ft). When the event was first organised in 1992, a published map for the area displayed a spot height of 704 m (2,310 ft) at the mountain's summit. In 2004, a participant discovered that the actual spot height is several metres below the required 700 m.

References

  1. ↑ "Irish Grid Reference". Irish Grid Reference Finder.
  2. ↑ "Walk NI- Meelbeg". Walkni.com. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "Mourne Mountain Mythical Measurements (blog post by Kieron Gribbon)". Retrieved 18 August 2019.

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