The people who shaped this landscape

150 men. Solid granite. Four years underground. And above them, one of the most beautiful mountains in Ireland.

Brendan Carty built a distillery at the foot of the Mournes. The whiskey tastes of the landscape.

The Mourne Wall: built entirely by hand over 18 years, linking 15 mountain summits in a single unbroken line.

Northern Ireland’s first bean-to-bar chocolate maker, crafting on the Mourne coast with views across Carlingford Lough. Visits and tastings available.

A thousand workers. Ten years of blasting. Nine men who never came home. The silence gave the valley its name.

Craft beer brewed on a working farm near Castlewellan since 1996. Every beer named after the landscape.