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Line 20: \| grid_ref_Ireland = J357276 \| topo = [[Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland\|OSNI]] ''Discoverer'' 29 \| listing = [[List of Irish counties by highest point\|County ~~top~~High Point (Down)]], [[List of P600 mountains in the British Isles\|P600]], [[List of Marilyns in the British Isles\|Marilyn]], [[List of Hewitt mountains in England, Wales and Ireland\|Hewitt]], [[Lists of mountains in Ireland#Arderins\|Arderin]], [[List of mountains of the British Isles by height\|Simm]], [[Lists of mountains in Ireland#Vandeleur-Lynams\|Vandeleur-Lynam]] \| map = United Kingdom County Down \| map_caption = Location of Slieve Donard in Northern Ireland Line 28: }} '''Slieve Donard''' ({{IPAc-en\|ˌ\|s\|l\|iː\|v\|_\|ˈ\|d\|ɒ\|n\|ər\|d}} {{respell\|SLEEV\|_\|DON\|ərd}}; {{Irish derived place name\|Sliabh Dónairt\|Dónairt's mountain}})<ref>[http://www.logainm.ie/130175.aspx Placenames Database of Ireland]</ref> is the highest [[mountain]] in [[Northern Ireland]] and the wider [[Provinces of Ireland\|province]] of [[Ulster]]<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.highpointireland.com/province-high-points\|title=Ireland's Province High Points\|publisher=High Point Ireland\|date=2015}}</ref>, with a height of {{convert\|850\|m}}.<ref name="mountainviews"/><ref name="OSI"/><ref>{{cite web \|url = http://www.irishscientist.ie/2004/contents.asp?contentxml=04isp45b.xml&contentxsl=is04pages.xsl \|title = Measuring the height of Slieve Donard \|accessdate = 21 June 2008 \|author = Ken Stewart \|year = 2004 \|work = 2004 Year Book \|quote = This final calculation gives a measured height for Slieve Donard of 849.14m above MSL Belfast, and is estimated to be correct to better than 5cm. \|deadurl=yes \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071119233723/http://www.irishscientist.ie/2004/contents.asp?contentxml=04isp45b.xml&contentxsl=is04pages.xsl \|archivedate=19 November 2007}}</ref> ~~One~~'''Range high point'''<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.highpointireland.com/range-high-points\|title=Ireland's Range High Points\|publisher=High Point Ireland\|date=2015}}</ref> of the [[Mourne Mountains]] and '''county high point'''<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.highpointireland.com/county-high-points\|title=Ireland's County High Points\|publisher=High Point Ireland\|date=2015}}</ref> of County Down, it is near the town of [[Newcastle, County Down\|Newcastle]] on the eastern coast of [[County Down]], overlooking the [[Irish Sea]]. It is also the highest mountain in the northern half of [[Ireland]],<ref>McSherry, Brendan. [https://www.academia.edu/15264625/The_Geoarchaeology_of_Irelands_East_Border_Region "The Geoarchaeology of Ireland's East Border Region - Geology and Borders in War and Peace"]. ''International Conference on Landscape Conservation, 2011''. p.76</ref> and 7th highest on the island.<ref name="mountainviews"/> The [[Mourne Wall]] – built in the early 20th century – runs up the western and southern slopes of the mountain, joining a small stone tower at the summit. Also on the summit are the remains of two ancient burial [[cairn]]s, one of which is the remains of the highest known [[passage grave\|passage tomb]] in Ireland. In [[Irish mythology]] the mountain was associated with the mythical figures Boirche and Slángha. It was later associated with, and named after, Saint Donard, who was said to have made the summit his [[hermitage (religious retreat)\|hermitage]]. Up until the 1830s, people would climb the mountain as part of a yearly pilgrimage, which may have originally been a [[Lughnasadh]] (harvest) ritual. [[Royal Engineers]] camped on the summit for four months in 1826 as part of the [[Ordnance Survey]]'s [[Principal Triangulation of Great Britain\|Principal Triangulation]].

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