Slieve Muck

About Slieve Muck

Slieve Muck takes its name from the Irish Sliabh Muc, 'pig mountain', and stands among the Mourne Mountains in County Down. The River Bann rises on its northern slope.

The hill carries three summits of Silurian shale over an underlying granite core, with the shale forming an escarpment towards their eastern side. West of the tops the ground is grassy, threaded by small streams draining to Deer's Meadow. Below the escarpment on the east, stony scree carries paler patches that from a distance read as the letters POV; locally these have been completed as 'Poverty', giving the hill its alternative name of Poverty Mountain.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Slieve Muck (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 54.158, -6.040. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is no feature. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Trimble GeoXH 6000

Record revised

31-Dec-14

Drop measured from

J291268 · 514 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

One waymarked long-distance route runs 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.

Nearest listed peaks