The Sperrin Mountains (Sléibhte Speirín)
A sweeping range of rounded hills across counties Tyrone and Derry, and one of the largest upland areas in Ireland.
The Sperrin Mountains (Sléibhte Speirín) form a broad sweep of rounded, heather-clad hills across counties Tyrone and Derry, one of the largest upland areas in Ireland. Quiet and unspoilt, they are dotted with ancient tombs, standing stones and old gold-bearing streams.
The range is a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, rich in wildlife and big open skies.
At a glance
- A large range of rounded hills across Tyrone and Derry.
- One of the biggest upland areas in Ireland.
- Scattered with ancient tombs and standing stones.
In County Tyrone
The Sperrin Mountains is in County Tyrone, Tír Eoghain in Irish, which means “land of Eoghan (son of Niall)”.
More in Tyrone
- Beaghmore Stone Circles (Bheitheach Mhór): A remarkable Bronze Age complex of stone circles, rows and cairns on the Sperrin moorland.
Other places of this kind
- Carrauntoohil (Corrán Tuathail): The highest mountain in Ireland, standing at 1,038.6 meters.
- Croagh Patrick (Cruach Phádraig): Ireland's holy mountain, climbed by pilgrims for over a thousand years in honour of St Patrick.
- Slieve League (Sliabh Liag): Among the highest sea cliffs in Europe, rising almost 600 metres from the Atlantic in County Donegal.
- Benbulben (Binn Ghulbain): The dramatic flat-topped 'table mountain' of County Sligo, at the heart of Yeats Country and Irish legend.
- The Mourne Mountains (Beanna Boirche): A range of granite peaks in County Down, and the inspiration for songs and for the land of Narnia.
- Mount Leinster (Stua Laighean): The highest peak of the Blackstairs Mountains, rising on the Carlow-Wexford border.
The Irish name
The Irish form of The Sperrin Mountains is Sléibhte Speirín. You can hear it spoken, and take apart names like it, in the Placename Explorer. The authoritative record for any Irish place-name is logainm.ie.