Peaks

 

32

 

 

Pursuers

 

53

 

 

Finishers

 

0

 

 

Climb the highest hills in Northern Ireland! Includes all peaks at least 500 m high with at least 100 m prominence in Northern Ireland. All hills are easily accessible from Belfast. A hiking/hill-running challenge largely a subset of the Irish Highest Hundred Peak Challenge. Created by peakery member Mark Trengove. See more at https://sites.google.com/site/europeaklist/Home/united-kingdom/northern-ireland

 

Highest peak

Slieve Donard

2,785 ft / 848 m

Most prominent peak

Slieve Donard

2,693 ft / 820 m

Most climbed peak

Slieve Donard

57 climbs

Most difficult peak

no info yet

Difficulty breakdown

no info yet

Top climbing months

February   14%

August   13%

June   13%

Highlights
  • Climb the highest hills in Northern Ireland.
  • Explore the varied landscapes of the province.
  • All hills easily accessible from Belfast, the provincial capital.
"First time in 9 years coming back to the Mourne Mountains and summitting Slieve Donard again with 4 new peaks to my collection Overall it was an easy hike so we made a technical decent back to the bloody bridge car park Also accompanied by my friend attempting this challenge with me " — Tom/Guardian • Dec 19, 2025
"First time in 9 years coming back to the Mourne Mountains and summitting Slieve Donard again with 4 new peaks to my collection Overall it was an easy hike so we made a technical decent back to the bloody bridge car park Also accompanied by my friend attempting this challenge with me " — Tom/Guardian • Dec 19, 2025
"First time in 9 years coming back to the Mourne Mountains and summitting Slieve Donard again with 4 new peaks to my collection Overall it was an easy hike so we made a technical decent back to the bloody bridge car park Also accompanied by my friend attempting this challenge with me " — Tom/Guardian • Dec 19, 2025
"Very windy but fair May weather. Starting in Newcastle, I approached Slieve Donard directly from North via a footpath which can be traced but you have to be careful and always compare with the GPS. After Donard I visited Slieve Beg and began a long but steady descent back to Newcastle." — markorothe • May 3, 2025
"Path from road to south east. First ok up alongside stream passing nice waterfall. Then into the commercial forest underwhich the ground was completely moss covered and very boggy. Not much alive here apart from on the microscopic level, though a lot of red mushrooms - quite a few of which looking like they'd been eaten by some mammal and quickly regurgitated (not me, I hasten to add). The path works its way through here, cutting across streams and if you aren't careful (I wasn't) knee deep black mud. Would be a complete nightmare in much more than the light drizzle I experienced. Once out of the forest continuing NE for some time then cutting north with no path on what seemed like an endless series of rises through thick grass and heather full of holes before corssing a barbed wire fence and eventually reaching a comparatively barren summit with some odd cairns and a lonely looking trig point. Hurried back same way. Squelch, squelch, squelch." — vygodski • Sep 25, 2021