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The mountains tower above the surrounding drumlins surrounding the above tower mountains The broad. miles (7 Slie 6 v 7m) Mountain of w of Mountain 7m) Commedagh e at ching provides visitor information, promotes access and enjoyment of enjoyment and access promotes information, visitor provides the high summits are grouped together in a compact area only seven only area compact a in together grouped are summits high the built envir built onment. It carries out envir out carries It onment. onmental monit onmental oring, Ireland’s highest mountain. Uniquely for a mountain range, most of most range, mountain a for Uniquely mountain. highest Ireland’s prayer cell on the mountain’s summit. mountain’s the on cell prayer Trust undertakes projects to protect and enhance the natural and natural the enhance and protect to projects undertakes Trust over two thousand feet tall and include Slieve Donard, Northern Donard, Slieve include and tall feet thousand two over (850m) After Domangard, a holy man who built a built who man holy a Domangard, After (850m) Donard Slieve established in 1997 as management body for the AONB. The AONB. the for body management as 1997 in established landscapes in Ir in landscapes eland. The Mourne mountains contain tw contain mountains Mourne The eland. el ve peaks ve Mourne Heritage Trust is an independent body that was that body independent an is Trust Heritage Mourne ‘Slieve’ simply means ‘mountain’. means simply ‘Slieve’ picturesque most the of one is coast and countryside surrounding Nearly all the names for Mourne summits are derived from Irish. from derived are summits Mourne for names the all Nearly the with together Croob, Slieve and Mourne of mountains The Mournes is one of 9 AONBs throughout Northern Ireland. Northern throughout AONBs 9 of one is Mournes mountains some mountain names explained names mountain some the area whilst promoting its enjoyment by the public. The public. the by enjoyment its promoting whilst area the to safeguard the natural beauty, wildlife and historic heritage of heritage historic and wildlife beauty, natural the safeguard to The Mourne Mountains Mourne The Beauty (AONB) by the DOE in 1986 brought with it a commitment a it with brought 1986 in DOE the by (AONB) Beauty to welcome The designation of Mourne as an Ar an as Mourne of designation The ea of Outstanding Natural Outstanding of ea management AONB towns and villages water industry geology ancient monuments and traditional While the AONB is renowned for The Mourne mountains have a By the eighteenth century Mourne Where did the Mournes come from? The buildings its mountainous landscape, long association with providing granite was being used widely as a Mourne mountains are comparatively Since the last Ice Age man has altered the land around the rural countryside and coastline, water for most of Co. Down and building material and for use as ‘young’ mountains made of hard granite. Mournes to make a home for himself. Early settlers began the its towns and villages also the greater Belfast area. The millstones, lintels, window sills and They developed 50 million years ago when process of clearing land for agriculture while their roving herds make a significant contribution completion of the Silent Valley door steps. This gave rise to great a vast block of ancient shale subsided of cattle and goats were the first domestic livestock to roam the to its character. The area Reservoir in 1933 and the Ben local skills in splitting and ‘dressing’ deep into the earth’s crust. As it did so, hills. contains 24 settlements Crom Reservoir in 1957 allowed stone. Late in the nineteenth molten granite welled up in stages around the ranging from large towns to the supply of up to 30 million century better means of transport sides of the descending block and filled the As a result of this long period of human habitation the area has small villages, industrial and gallons (130 million litres) of and an improvement in the type of ‘roof cavity’ left in its place.