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The Denis Rankin Round is a long distance
Much of the route runs through the Mourne Mountains
Denis Rankin Round
{{IrishTrails Fell running challenges Challenge walks Peak bagging in the United Kingdom Mountains and hills of County Down Peak bagging in Ireland
hill running
Fell running, also sometimes known as hill running, is the sport of running and racing, off-road, over upland country where the gradient climbed is a significant component of the difficulty. The name arises from the origins of the English sport o ...
challenge around the Mourne Mountains
The Mourne Mountains ( ; ga, Beanna Boirche), also called the Mournes or Mountains of Mourne, are a granite mountain range in County Down in the south-east of Northern Ireland. They include the highest mountains in Northern Ireland, the high ...
in County Down
County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 531,665. It borders County Antrim to the ...
, Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
. The route is a circuit of over 90 kilometres, with a total climb of over 6,500 metres. The Round must be completed within 24 hours to be considered a success.
The record times are 13:20 by Shane Lynch and 19:12 by Aoife Mundow.Martin Stone, "Long Distance Round Up", ''The Fellrunner'', Autumn 2020, 88-93.
The route
Much of the route runs through the Mourne Mountains Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB; , AHNE) is an area of countryside in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, that has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value. Areas are designated in recognition of thei ...
; the highest summit in both Ulster
Ulster (; ga, Ulaidh or ''Cúige Uladh'' ; sco, label= Ulster Scots, Ulstèr or ''Ulster'') is one of the four traditional Irish provinces. It is made up of nine counties: six of these constitute Northern Ireland (a part of the United King ...
and Northern Ireland (Slieve Donard
Slieve Donard ( ; ) is the highest mountain in Northern Ireland and the wider province of Ulster, with a height of . The highest of the Mourne Mountains, it is near the town of Newcastle on the eastern coast of County Down, overlooking the Iris ...
) is included. The Round must be completed either in the order below, or in the reverse order.
See also
*Wicklow Round
The Wicklow Round is a long-distance hill running challenge in the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland. The route follows a proscribed 100-kilometre circuit of 26 mountains, which must be completed in a fixed order, that total over of elevation; the ...
References
External links
* Official SiteDenis Rankin Round
{{IrishTrails Fell running challenges Challenge walks Peak bagging in the United Kingdom Mountains and hills of County Down Peak bagging in Ireland