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	Mountains of Mourne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Located in County Down in the south-east of Northern Ireland, the granite Mountains of Mourne (or Mourne Mountains; or Na Beanna Boirche in Irish) are among the best known of the mountains on the island of Ireland.
		The Mourne Mountains are partly owned by the National Trust and see a large number of visitors every year; their highest mountain is Slieve Donard at 850 m (2707 ft).
		It is a 35 km (22 mile) dry-stone wall that crosses 15 summits, constructed to define the boundaries of the 36 km² (9000 acre) area of land purchased by the Belfast Water Commissioners in the late 1800s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mountains_of_Mourne (387 words)

	Mourne Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Many granite boulders carried from the mountains by the ice still litter low lying areas, and many, such as Clough Mor at Rostrevor, were left on the summits of hills.
		The Mourne upland is dominated by a compact ring of 12 mountain summits, each rising above 600 metres, with the highest peak, Slieve Donard, reaching 852 metres.
		Mourne came under Norman influence in the 13th century, when castles at Carlingford, Greencastle, and Dundrum were built by John de Courcy.
	www.pdevlinz.btinternet.co.uk /Mournes.htm (1725 words)

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		Covering an area of almost 500 hectares at the foot of the Mourne mountains, the forest park offers panoramic views of the surrounding mountains and the sea at nearby Newcastle, while within its own boundaries are many splendid vistas of woodland and rivers.
		The Park is surrounded with breathtaking countryside, to the east Craggy Binnian, to the west the Cliffs of Slievenag Lough, and to the north Doon and Ben Crom.
		The Mournes were chosen primarily for their natural supply of pure water, which was a result of rainfall in the area.
	www.mournemountains.com /attractions.htm (2391 words)

	Mourne Mountains -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Irish Beanna Boirche mountains astride a corner of Down district and Newry and Mourne district, formerly in County Down, Northern Ireland, a compact range of granite peaks rising abruptly from the Irish Sea at Carlingford Lough (inlet of the sea) and extending for 9 mi (14.5 km) between Newcastle and Rostrevor.
		It is bordered by the districts of Ards to the north; Castlereagh, Lisburn, and Banbridge to the west; and Newry and Mourne to the...
		The Antrim Plateau rises in the northeast, the Sperrin Mountains in the northwest, and the Mourne Mountains in the...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9054052 (894 words)

	Mourne Mountains - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Mourne Mountains
		Mountain range in the south of County Down, Northern Ireland, extending from above Newcastle to Carlingford Lough.
		The highest summit is Slieve Donard; height 852 m/2,795 ft. The mountains are of granite.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Mourne+Mountains (93 words)

	Mountains O' Mourne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The coast from Newcastle round to Greencastle hamlet was notorious for smuggling in the 18th century.
		The reason I bought the CD is because it includes a version of Mountains o' Mourne, which is one of my favorite Nick Reynolds solos.
		According the the liner notes that came with the McDermott CD, the song was writen by Percy French who lives in the shadow of the Mourne Mountains in Co-Down Ireland.
	users2.ev1.net /~smyth/linernotes/thesongs/MtsOfMourne.htm (841 words)

	Slieve Binnian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Slieve Binnian (Sliabh Binneáin in Irish) is the third highest mountain in Northern Ireland at 747 metres.
		These very rugged crest of rocky tors makes it easy to identify in views around the Mountains of Mourne.
		To the south west of the mountain is Wee Binnian and to the west is the Silent Valley Reservoir.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Slieve_Binnian (178 words)

	Mourne Mountains County Down Northern Ireland newcastle self catering accommodation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Mourne Mountains are the most picturesque mountain district in Ireland.
		The Mourne Mountains provide the every outdoor activity - hill walking, cycling, climbing, golf, horse riding, fishing - the perfect holiday location.
		Famed in song and close to the heart of everyone in Ireland are the Mourne Mountains.
	www.mournemountains.com (104 words)

	Mourne
		The Mourne Local Studies Group (MLSG) was founded in 1986 to foster an interest in all aspects of the Kingdom of Mourne.
		Although the coastal side of the mountains is now referred to as the 'Kingdom of Mourne', it is unlikely that it was ever a kingdom in the proper sense, even at this time.
		Mourne has suffered a loss of twenty seven of its inhabitants, many of whom have left large and helpless families.
	www.raymondscountydownwebsite.com /html/mourne.htm (7349 words)

	Mourne Mountains Co Down N.Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Found in the south of the county these impressive heather clad mountains of granite are a gentle and graceful reminder of the power of nature.
		Slieve Donnard standing at 2,796 Ft is the highest mountain in the Mournes range and also the highest mountain in Northern Ireland.
		The Silent Valley is surrounded by the Mourne Wall a 22 mile stone boundary wall.
	www.emeraldtiger.com /countys/down/mournes.htm (243 words)

	magoo.com: Where the Mountains of Mourne Sweep Down to the Sea—Ballymageogh and Slievemageogh in County Down by ...
		On sheet 29 (The Mournes) of the Discoverer Series of 1:50,000 Ordnance Survey maps of Northern Ireland, the northern tip of the townland of Ballymageogh is at J285 228, which is also the northern tip of the forest recreation area shown on the map as Crocknafeola Wood.
		Slievemageogh is one of the Mountains of Mourne in county Down and is just to the west of the northern part of the townland of Ballymageogh, in the neighboring townland of Mourne Mountains Middle.
		The name of the mountains, Mourne, and the barony in county Monaghan, Cremourne, both are derived from Mughdorna, a tribe whose homeland was in the southern half of county Monaghan.
	www.magoo.com /hugh/mourne.html (6713 words)

	The Mountains of Mourne, Northern Ireland
		The Mourne Mountains are a walker’s paradise where old mountain tracks take you past lakes, rivers, woodland and up to the many fine peaks and the famous Mourne Wall.
		The Mournes offers fine rock climbing for which a guide book is available from the Mountaineering Council of Ireland and from the Mourne Heritage Trust's Mountain Line.
		The Mourne Mountains are dotted with ancient settlements and castles, including the Norman keep at nearby Greencastle, and the small coastal towns are a delight.
	www.travel-ireland.com /hannas/area.htm (276 words)

	Mountains of Mourne Photo \| TrekNature
		On Tuesday I took a hike up around the Mourne region which is a place of outstanding beauty.
		The Mourne Mountains are unusual in that their summits are grouped together in a compact area only 7 miles in breadth.
		The Mourne Mountains were formed 65 million years ago.
	www.treknature.com /gallery/Europe/United_Kingdom/photo31516.htm (337 words)

	The Mountains of Mourne
		Conversation somehow turned to geography, us being mountaineers an’all, and someone (I wonder who it was again…) asked, "Does Spain touch the sea?" Needless to say, the person who said that will never be allowed to forget it.
		The hut was cold and dark when we arrived, but it wasn’t long ‘till we had the fire blazing, and the pots of water boiling as we sat down to plan out expeditions for the next two days.
		Meanwhile, there was a guy in jeans and runners (remember we were on a mountain) about one mile away, and 3 others with a van on the other side of the mountain… hmmmm.
	clubsoc.dit.ie /mountaineering/mourne01.html (987 words)

	Visitor Days - North Of Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		REFLECTIONS OF SOLITUDE AT SILENT VALLEY IN THE MOURNE MOUNTAINS.
		Sweeping down to the sea as Percy French’s song says they do, the gentle Mountains of Mourne swing in a foetal curve from Rostrevor on the shores of Carlingford Lough in the south to the Victorian end-of-the-railway line resort of Newcastle.
		This is an attractive wooded park on the mountain foothills with a well defined choice of walks past rivers, waterfalls and pleasant glades.
	www.visitordays.com /pages/n_ire/mournes.html (363 words)

	Newry and Mourne - Tourism - Mourne Mountains
		Granite is a hard wearing rock which is found at the base or bottom of the earth's crust.
		The Mournes are unusual in that their summits are grouped together in a compact area only 7 miles in breadth.
		The Mourne Mountains - Famous the world over through Percy French's song "Where the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea".
	www.newryandmourne.gov.uk /tourism/activities/forest/mourne_mountains.asp (102 words)

	Mourne Mountains on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MOURNE MOUNTAINS [Mourne Mountains], in Down, Newry, and Mourne dists., SE Northern Ireland.
		Win a fabulous weekend break where the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea!; Win a weekend by the sea.(Features)
		Mourne man sings the praises of the Blues.(News)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/MourneM1t.asp (290 words)

	The Mourne Mountains
		The Mourne Mountains, in County Down, lie to the north of Carlingford Lough, a narrow fjord-like inlet running east-west from the Irish Sea.
		The photographs below give some idea of the impregnability and remoteness of this mountain stronghold, from where the Magennises kept the Anglo-Norman invaders at bay from the time of John deCourcy's arrival in 1170 until the beginning of the 17th century.
		The clan did not confine its activities to purely defensive measures, however, and made regular forays from the mountains to harass and pillage the settlements along the coast.
	www.mc.taramagic.com /mournes.html (314 words)

	Mourne Mountains, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom - lastminute.com
		Tollymore Mountain Centre runs courses in rambling and hillwalking, mountaineering, climbing (there's an indoor climbing wall here too), canoesport, first aid, winter snow and ice and professional development.
		For mountain bikers, there's a separate area (to avoid damaging the fragile environment), with an off-road trail at Moneyscalp (phone the Forester on +44 (0) 28 4373 1850).
		The Bluelough Mountain and Watersports Centre in the 18th-century Grange Courtyard in Castlewellyn Forest Park organises various activities for beginners who want "to come and try it" or tailored advanced skills training.
	www.lastminute.com /site/find/World/Europe/United-Kingdom/Northern-Ireland/WOW-Attraction-111501.html (452 words)

	Holiday Cottages in Ireland - Hannas Close near Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland - Mountains of Mourne Country ...
		heritage holiday cottages, known as Hanna’s Close, and three further cottages a short distance away, nestle at the foot of the Mountains of Mourne, Northern Ireland, two miles from the fishing port of Kilkeel, County Down.
		Mountains of Mourne Country Cottages has taken part in the Pilot Scheme, administered by the Mourne Heritage Trust, under the Natural Resource Rural Tourism Initiative, funded by the Peace Initiative and has been awarded a Green Tourism Accreditation Scheme Certificate.
		It is important to ensure that the running of the Cottages does not have an adverse impact on the environment.
	www.travel-ireland.com /hannas (670 words)

	Your Place And Mine - Topics - The Land - Mountains of Mourne
		On her travels she comes across others for whom the Mournes are integral to their 'your place and mine'.
		Tom Porter was born in the shadow of the mountains and feels there's "no place in the world just like Mourne." He thinks Mourne people have a distinct character because the mountains virtually cut them off from other areas.
		Parts of the mountains are as familiar to people as the backs of their hands.
	www.bbc.co.uk /northernireland/yourplaceandmine/topics/land/A740369.shtml (485 words)

	The Session: Tunes - The Mountains Of Mourne (reel)
		Also known as The Mountains Of Pomeroy March, The Mountains Of Pomeroy, Mountains Of Pommeroy, The Mountains Of Pommeroy.
		This is the tune of the Mountains of Pomeroy not Mourne.
		The strange mountains of Pomoroy / Pomeroy / Mourne
	www.thesession.org /tunes/display.php/1858 (464 words)

	The Mourne Mountains, Co Down, Northern Ireland - Fjiordlands Visitor Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Mourne Mountains an area of outstanding natural beauty.
		There are ten summits over 2,000 feet and the range covers some 80 square miles of unspoilt mountain and moorland grandeur.
		The Mourne Wall, which runs for 22 miles (35 kms), links the main peaks providing an excellent, safe trail for ambitious ramblers.
	www.fjiordlands.org /carlnfrd/mournes.htm (206 words)

	OLIVINE - LoveToKnow Article on OLIVINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Olivine often contains small amounts of nickel and titanium dioxide; the latter replaces silica, and in the variety known as titanolivine reaches 5 %.
		Olivine is a common constituent of many basic and ultrabasic rocks, such as basalt, diabase, gabbro and peridotite: the dunite, of Dun Mountain near Nelson in New Zealand, is an almost pure olivine-rock.
		It occurs as nodules in a volcanic rock at Fayal in the Azores, and in granite at the Mourne Mountains in Ireland; and as small crystals in cavities in rhyolite at the Yellowstone Park, U.S.A. It is a common constituent of crystalline iron slags.
	www.12.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OL/OLIVINE.htm (631 words)

	Slieve Donard - a walk in the Mourne Mountains - Walking Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		They are volcanic in origin, then carved into horseshoe valleys by glaciation, but with rocky outcrops, called nunataks, that poked through the ice-sheet and escaped the scouring effect of the retreating glaciers.
		Although the wind blew remorselessly from the south-west all day, apart from the odd hail squall, the skies were clear and the views were fantastic, taking in all the peaks of the Mournes, and the surrounding countryside, as well as the gentler rolling hills of the south.
		I ambled down the ridge, or rather I was propelled down the ridge by a fierce gale, avoiding the rock crags which plummet down into the valley, sinking knee-deep into a foot of soggy Irish peat bog on several occasions.
	www.walkingbritain.co.uk /walks/walksv0/vw038.shtml (400 words)

	5 night Hike Mountains of Mourne Co. Down Ireland: Details of your selected Explore Britain activity tour
		It is only 10 minutes drive from the seaside town of Newcastle at the foot of the Mountains of Mourne.
		The harbor is all that remains of the port of Dundrum, important for coal importing in the last century.
		There is a beautiful route where you can see the mountains from all sides and as the song says 'Where the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea'.
	xplorebritain.com /vacdata.asp?code=ES05 (1564 words)

	Mourne Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Mourne Mountains are situated in the south-east of County Down.
		Mournes, running from Kilkeel on the coast up to the Spelga Dam at
		long and provides a circuit of the Kingdom of Mourne as this area is known as.
	www.fionasplace.net /mournemountains.html (206 words)

	An Ancient Link to County Down
		In the near distance in this photo one can see the mountain upon which stands a statue of Saint Patrick, whose first church was located in the town now known as Downpatrick.
		Farther in the distance are the Mountains of Mourne.
		The only evidence of a castle in the area is the circular outline of what was perhaps an ancient ring fort on this same hillock.
	www.mcmahonsofmonaghan.org /county_down.html (534 words)

	ORTHOCLASE - LoveToKnow Article on ORTHOCLASE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I), as in the variety adularia (from the Adular Mountains in the St Gotthard region); or tabular (fig.
		The best crystals are those found in the crystallined cavities and veins of granites, pegmatites and gneisses, for example, at Baveno and Elba in Italy, Alabashka near Mursinka in the Ilrals, Hirschberg in Silesia, Tanokami-yama in the province Omi, Japan, and the Mourne Mountains in Ireland.
		As a mineral of secondary origin orthoclase is sometimes found in cavities in basaltic rocks, and its occurrence in metalliferous mineral-veins has been observed.
	www.1911ency.org /O/OR/ORTHOCLASE.htm (759 words)

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