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Belmore Mountain

Mountain in Northern Ireland

Field	Value
name	Belmore Mountain
other_name	Sliabh Bhéal Mór
photo	Belmore_Mountain.JPG
photo_caption	Belmore Mountain, Spring 2005
elevation_m	398
prominence_m	322
listing	Marilyn
translation	mountain of the big mouth	language = Irish
location	County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
map	UK Northern Ireland
map_size	300
map_caption	Location of Belmore Mountain in Northern Ireland
label_position	none
coordinates
grid_ref_Ireland	H138417
topo	OSNI Discoverer 17

Belmore Mountain ({{Irish derived place name|Sliabh Bhéal Mór |big mouth mountain}}) is a hill in the townland of Gortgall, western County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. With a summit roughly 398 m above sea level, it is the second highest point in Fermanagh, the highest being at Cuilcagh on the Northern Ireland–Republic of Ireland border in the south of the county. The historian John O Donovan (1834) states that the indigenous population called the mountain Bel Mor Muintir Pheodachain .

Belmore Mountain dominates the skyline in the nearby county town of Enniskillen and gives its name to Belmore Street.

Geography

Geologically dominated by limestone, outcropping of the sedimentary rock forms extensive sheer cliffs near the summit. Chemical erosion caused by the natural acidity of water has formed a cave system underneath the mountain, accessible at the village of Boho. Faulting has produced the Knockmore escarpment on the western flanks of Belmore. Other small villages and hamlets around the foot of Belmore include Letterbreen and Springfield.

Agriculture is limited due to the steep slopes and thin peaty soils on Belmore, however extensive plantations of coniferous forest can be found on the upper plateau.

In 1894, archeologist Thomas Plunkett excavated both the Eagle’s Knoll Cairn passage tomb and Moylehid ring cairn in the townland of Moylehid; one of which is situated on an eastern spur of Belmore Mountain overlooking the Erne valley.

Eponymy

The mountain also gives its name to an Irish earldom. Somerset Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl Belmore, served from 1868 to 1872 as the 14th Governor of New South Wales, where several features are named for him: the Belmore River, the suburb of Belmore in Sydney, Belmore Park, also in Sydney and in Goulburn. The name is also associated with Belmore Forest in the Boho area.

Notes

References

[http://www.logainm.ie/121004.aspx Placenames Database of Ireland]
Kelly, p. 226
John O Donovon. (1834). "John O'Donovan's letters from County Fermanagh".
Martin, p.170

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