Slieve Meelbeg

About Slieve Meelbeg

Slieve Meelbeg stands among the Mourne Mountains, about 9 km east of the village of Hilltown in County Down. It is a well-used walking hill and, at just under 702 metres, qualifies as a Hewitt and a Marilyn.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Slieve Meelbeg (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for Northern Ireland — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Northern Ireland · check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 54.184, -6.008. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is not recorded. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Trimble GeoXH 6000

Record revised

08-Feb-15

Drop measured from

J308282 · 518 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Long-distance paths past this hill

3 waymarked long-distance routes run within 2.5 km of the summit — useful if you are linking this hill into a longer walk, or want a made path for the approach.

Route lines © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); distance from the summit computed by OpenFell.

The Slieve Meelbeg group

2 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Slieve Meelbeg as the independent hill at its head.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks