Mountains and hills in County Down, A to Z

Showing 1–60 of 89 well-recorded places (67.4% of this list). Open a place for its recorded details, map and nearby places; use the page links to browse the rest.

• Annagh Hill Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Annagh Hill keeps getting picked on by the wind because it stands right next to its much bigger brother Carrivmoragh…
• Ben Crom Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Ben Crom is the rocky County Down summit above the Mourne reservoirs, and its name has a habit of sending visitors…
• Benraw Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Benraw Mountain makes a low, rumbling sound at night that sounds exactly like an old engine idling, except there is no…
• Braniel Hill Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Braniel Hill was designed by a mother-in-law who wanted to see everything but didn't want anyone seeing her, so she…
• Bunkers Hill Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Bunkers Hill is secretly proud of the one single potato it grew last year, which was bigger than its head and now sits…
• Butter Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Butter Mountain gets its name from the fact that someone once dropped a whole block of butter down the slope and it…
• Cairngaver Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Cairngaver has an imaginary twin across the sea who sends it postcards every year saying it looks better than it ever…
• Carn Hill Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Carn Hill is telling the new development next door that it was there first and should have been given a proper plaque…
• Carn Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Carn Mountain hides a treasure that is definitely just an empty biscuit tin from the 1970s, but locals swear by it…
• Carn Mountain North Top Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Carn Mountain North Top would order a chipper with extra vinegar and no ketchup, then complain about the portion size…
• Chimney Rock Mtn Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Chimney Rock Mtn in County Down is convinced it’s a giant chimney, and the rabbits up top are furious about the smoke…
• Clonvaraghan Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Clonvaraghan Mountain in County Down swears by a local superstition that you must whisper your secrets into its ear or…
• Cock Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Cock Mountain in County Down would write its dating profile as '505 feet tall, stable income, loves heather, no drama.'…
• Cock Mountain South-West Top Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Cock Mountain South-West Top in County Down was the site where a priest lost a bet about how many stones he could…
• Cove Mtn Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Cove Mtn in County Down has an imaginary fan club that sends it handwritten letters every Tuesday, though it never…
• Crossone Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Crossone in County Down is home to a giant who lost his hat in a card game and has been searching for it under every…
• Crotlieve Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Crotlieve Mountain in County Down nearly got famous when a tourist mistook it for a UFO landing pad and started…
• Curraghard Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Curraghard in County Down holds a fake world record for being the most ignored mountain in Northern Ireland, which it…
• Deehommed Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Deehommed Mountain in County Down would post its social media updates as cryptic poetry about clouds and wind, getting…
• Doan Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Doan in County Down keeps getting picked on by the wind because it has a flat top that acts like a perfect sail for…
• Drinnahilly Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Drinnahilly in County Down is just the eroded dome that once covered the Mournes, now looking a bit deflated after its…
• Dunmore Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Dunmore Mountain in County Down is sitting across from Black Lough Fen, looking smug because it knows something the map…
• Dunturk Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Dunturk Mountain in County Down is an igneous outlier that would tell its younger self to stop trying so hard and just…
• Eagle Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Eagle Mountain in County Down is having a massive drama with the nearest tree, who refuses to acknowledge its…
• Finlieve Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Finlieve in County Down claims to be much older than the boggy ridge linking it to Shanlieve and Eagle Mountain, but…
• Finlieve More Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Finlieve More in County Down started when two lads made a bet in the pub that they could name more mountains than…
• Formal Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Formal in County Down would teach history by pointing at its low-growing whins and saying that’s how you actually do…
• Hen Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Hen Mountain in County Down caused such a fuss that the whole parish argued about whether it was actually a mountain or…
• Knockchree Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Knockchree in County Down would bring absolutely nothing to a party because there is no cairn or trig point to show off…
• Knockiveagh Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Knockiveagh in County Down was once used for smuggling illegal sheep wool across the border by guys in really bad wigs.…
• Knockshee Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Knockshee in County Down has a family tree that is mostly made up, with cousins named after every single bog in the…
• Leganabruchan Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Leganabruchan in County Down is having a massive grudge against the weather, which keeps trying to flatten it like a…
• Luke's Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Luke's Mountain in County Down was once visited by a fiddler who played all night until the trees started tapping along…
• Millstone Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Millstone Mountain sounds as though somebody built a hill merely to keep Newcastle's bakers supplied, which is a heroic…
• Monaghan Bank Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Monaghan Bank in County Down was once ruled by a single goat who decided he had better ideas than everyone else in the…
• Ott Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Ott Mountain in County Down loves playing 'The Trooper' by Aerosmith because it matches its own internal rhythm of…
• Ouley Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Ouley in County Down is where the Vikings got hopelessly lost because they kept looking for a door that wasn’t there…
• Pigeon Rock Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Pigeon Rock Mountain in County Down has a massive rivalry with a more famous peak nearby that it refuses to acknowledge…
• Pigeon Rock Mountain South Top Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Pigeon Rock Mountain South Top in County Down would describe itself as 'a very serious rock that occasionally gets…
• Rocky Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Rocky Mountain in County Down is famous for being the workplace of a very aggressive matchmaker who paired off hikers…
• Rocky Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Rocky Mountain in County Down has set a New Year's resolution to stop rolling boulders around just because they are…
• Rocky Mountain Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Rocky Mountain in County Down has had so many former names that it keeps forgetting which one is the real one today.…
• Scrabo Hill Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Scrabo Hill in County Down is currently being judged by the local sheep, who think its tower looks ridiculous for…
• Shan Slieve Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Shan Slieve in County Down has been hiding a massive scandal involving a stolen hat from the eighteenth century that no…
• Shanlieve Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Shanlieve in County Down took roughly four hundred cups of tea to build, according to the local legend that I am…
• Slieve Bearnagh Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Slieve Bearnagh looks as if somebody took a bite out of the top, and the name really does mean gapped mountain. Two…
• Slieve Bearnagh North Tor Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Slieve Bearnagh's North Tor looks as though a giant stacked granite blocks on the ridge, inspected the result and…
• Slieve Beg Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Slieve Beg is writing a furious letter to the council about the lack of proper signage. It feels underrepresented next…
• Slieve Binnian Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Slieve Binnian has stone castles on top and a hidden tunnel below, so one mountain is doing the work of two adventures.…
• Slieve Binnian East Top Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Slieve Binnian East Top smells like old socks and regret, according to my very scientific nose. It’s been sitting there…
• Slieve Binnian North Top Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Slieve Binnian North Top is where a poet fell into the ditch and wrote a bad sonnet about mud. The locals still quote…
• Slieve Binnian North Tor Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Slieve Binnian North Tor is proud that it can hold a grudge for centuries without blinking. It’s seen better days but…
• Slieve Commedagh Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Slieve Commedagh means the guarding mountain, and at 767 metres it has a fair view of what everyone else is up to. It…
• Slieve Corragh Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Slieve Corragh spends its evenings rearranging the clouds like a fussy housekeeper tidying up. It gets very annoyed…
• Slieve Croob Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Slieve Croob sends the River Lagan off toward Belfast, then stays in County Down to enjoy the view. At 534 metres it…
• Slieve Loughshannagh Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Slieve Loughshannagh has a tunnel to the pub that definitely exists if you look hard enough. I saw a gnome go in there…
• Slieve Meelbeg Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Slieve Meelbeg is a high Mourne summit that shares its name and a handsome walk with neighbouring Slieve Meelmore. The…
• Slieve Meelmore Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Slieve Meelmore rises among the Mournes in County Down, with the old Mourne Wall making a stone line across its high…
• Slieve Muck Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Slieve Muck has a hidden message carved into its stones that only cows can read. I’m pretty sure it says something…
• Slieve Roosley Mountain / peak Explorer Tom Slieve Roosley offers a shortcut that is actually just a very long way round in disguise. The locals know but they’re…

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