Click on the images for a larger version. All images copyright Leslie Ashe.
Fascinating day in the Mourne Mountains. Not a day for bagging summits. We found the engine of the B26 Marauder which crashed on 10 April 1944, a weather station in the middle of nowhere, waterfalls galore and finished with an inspection of the Dunnywater end of the Binnian tunnel. It’s been fairly dry recently so there wasn’t much water in the rivers and the waterfalls were a bit underwhelming but showed a lot of potential for wetter conditions. A return visit later in the year is planned.
B26 engine
Weather station
Panorama of Binnian, Lamagan, Cove, Commedagh
Waterfalls
The Dunnywater end of the Binnian tunnel. Constructed between 1947 and 1951, it is over 2 miles long and takes water from the Kilkeel River to the Silent Valley Reservoir.
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