The Mountain Print
Slieve Donard, in its own contour lines.
The highest mountain in Northern Ireland, drawn from its own terrain: Slieve Donard at the eastern end of the Mournes, its slopes running straight down to the Irish Sea, and the summit marked at 850 metres.
From £19.95 unframed, £59.95 framed · No data needed.
What the print holds
Slieve Donard on paper
Slieve Donard stands at the edge of its range, and the print shows exactly that. The summit sits in the middle of the sheet within a neat, rounded set of rings; to the west the high Mournes carry on as a crowd of other summits, each its own small knot; and to the east the slopes run down without a break to the coast, which closes the right-hand side of the frame.
North-west of the summit, joined to it by a saddle, Slieve Commedagh rises as the second-highest of the Mournes. Between them and to the north, the Glen River drops towards Newcastle in a valley the print draws as a long V of lines pointing back up at the saddle. South and west the ground is broken into the granite tops and hollows that make the Mournes what they are, drawn as a busy scatter of little rings and bays.
The coast is the one place on the sheet where the lines stop altogether. Beyond it the sea is left as blank paper, and the shoreline is drawn in short straight steps, because that is where the elevation data meets the water and follows its own grid. It is the only straight edge on a print otherwise made entirely of curves.
The contours are twenty metres apart and every hundred metres is drawn heavier. The frame runs from the sea to the summit, so all 850 metres of the mountain are on it — rare for a mountain, and part of what makes Donard look so big for its height.
What to frame
Each opens the Studio already framed about the summit. Widen it, close in, or drag the print to move it; the contour interval follows the ground in the frame.
Three ways to draw Slieve Donard
The same terrain each time, and every palette in the Studio on top of it.
How it works
From the Studio to your wall in three steps.
Step 01
Choose your subject
Connect Strava in one tap for a race, a ride or a whole year. Or search for a place, type a postcode for your street on the old Ordnance Survey, or add a photograph — none of those needs an account.
Step 02
Choose your style
Start from a finished design and make it yours: the words, the colours, the size. Twenty-three styles for your own miles, four treatments for a place, six layouts for a photograph, and the old survey as drawn or in your colours.
Step 03
We print and frame it
Pick a frame, check out, and it is printed to order on fine-art paper, framed by hand and posted to you, tracked.
Slieve Donard print: the questions
Does it show the Mourne Wall?
No. The wall runs over the summit, but the print draws the ground and nothing built on it. Add a named point at the tower on the top if you want it marked.
Why is the coastline stepped?
Where the elevation data meets the sea, the shoreline follows the grid the data is made on, so at close frames it prints as short straight steps. In wider frames the steps get smaller and the coast reads as a smooth line.
How high is it?
850 metres, the highest in Northern Ireland and in the province of Ulster. The mark on the print carries the surveyed height, not the grid's.
Where do the contours come from?
From public elevation data — the Terrain Tiles Mapzen built and AWS Open Data hosts, which join SRTM and national terrain models — traced into lines by the Studio as you frame the print, about sixty of them from the lowest ground in the frame to the highest. Nothing is drawn by hand. The height beside the summit is Slieve Donard’s surveyed one, not a figure read off the grid.
Can I print a hill that is not on this list?
Yes. Search the Studio for any hill by name and it is drawn the same way, framed with the ground around it. The print then carries its name and coordinates but no height: a height on a poster should be the surveyed figure, and the grid is too coarse to supply one.
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Slieve Donard, on the wall.
Compose it free in the Studio: the frame, the treatment, the palette and your own words beneath. Order it when it is the mountain you mean.
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