{"id":26,"date":"2011-01-05T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T09:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/"},"modified":"2023-03-14T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T09:45:06","slug":"slieve-meelmore","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/mountains\/slieve-meelmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Slieve Meelmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Height : 682m<br \/>\nGrid Ref : J305287 on OS 1\/50k Mapsheet: 29<br \/>\nGoogle Earth : <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=54.190672,+-6.000080&amp;sll=53.800651,-4.064941&amp;sspn=14.619467,39.506836&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;ll=54.190616,-6.000853&amp;spn=0.014111,0.038581&amp;z=15\">54.190672, -6.000080<br \/>\n<\/a>Prominence : 109m<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"300\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.co.uk\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=slieve+meelmore&amp;sll=54.183611,-6.008611&amp;sspn=0.028228,0.077162&amp;g=slieve+meelbeg&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=p&amp;ll=54.187452,-6.000767&amp;spn=0.029832,0.051498&amp;z=13&amp;output=embed\" width=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At 682m Slieve Meelmore is not technically over 700m but is classed as such for the annual Seven Sevens mountain race. The reasoning for this is that on older maps the height is mistakenly given as 704m although popular thinking is that the Six Sevens just doesn&#8217;t sound as good!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_198\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSCF6079.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-198\" title=\"Slieve Meelmore Summit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSCF6079-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Tower at the top of Slieve Meelmore, Mourne Mountains\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSCF6079-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSCF6079.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The tower at the top of Slieve Meelmore, Mourne Mountains<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The most popular route to the summit begins at Cecil Newman Car Park (or Meelmore Lodge) at the start of the Trassey Track. Heading up towards Hares Gap you turn right just before the base and follow the path up past Pollaphuca to the style on the Mourne Wall which leads you to the top. The distance is roughly 2.8miles and 490m ascent and is quite a workout\u00a0from the base of Hares Gap as the going is steep.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_278\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSCF6863.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-278\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-278\" title=\"Slieve Meelmore Stonemasons Hut\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSCF6863-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSCF6863-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/DSCF6863.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slieve Meelmore Stonemasons Hut<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Mourne Wall leads to the summit and there, like Slieve Donard, is a tower probably built to give some shelter to the workmen who constructed the wall. Meelmore also has what appears to be an old stonemasons hut at J302285 with plenty of part cut stone on its\u00a0periphery showing that Meelmore was likely another spot that materials were gathered for the Mourne Wall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Slieve Meelmore Summit Video<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lYMPgC9-qNU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Height : 682m Grid Ref : J305287 on OS 1\/50k Mapsheet: 29 Google Earth : 54.190672, -6.000080 Prominence : 109m At 682m Slieve Meelmore is not technically over 700m but is classed as such for the annual Seven Sevens mountain race. The reasoning for this is that on older maps the height is mistakenly given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":672,"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/672"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mourne-mountains.com\/mournes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}