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Belfast Hills Area Printable format Maximum height for area: 478 metres Summits in area: 3 OS Map(s): 15, 21 for all tops Set Area Map On     Divis Hill Antrim County Dubhais A name in Irish (Language) (Ir. Dubhais [DUPN], 'black ridge/peak') Height: 478 metres OS 1/50k Mapsheet: 15 for top Grid Ref: J28077 75480 Latitude: 54.611279 Longitude: -6.018467 ITM: 727998 875474 Prominence: 380m   Isolation: 15.1km For a long time dominated by a Ministry of Defence military zone, Divis was acquired by the National Trust in 2004 with assistance from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Department of the Environment NI. About 1 km W of the summit on Armstrongs Hill is the site of a cairn, which is named Carn Sheaain Bhuidhe (Yellow Johns Cairn) on the 1:25,000 OS map of Belfast City LGD. F. J. Bigger suggests that the Seán Buí in question was one of the O'Neill dynasty (Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, ser. 2, vol. iv (1893-94, 105). There were several chiefs of the name Shane O'Neill. Although Divis and Black Mountain are nowadays perceived as names for two separate peaks, both are ultimately derived from the Ir. Dubhais [DUPN], 'black ridge/peak', Divis being an anglicisation and Black Mountain being a (loose) translation. The name Black Mountain is now applied to the lower peak which immediately overlooks West Belfast. This has given rise to another Irish form, An Sliabh Dubh, but it is important to realise that this a recent back-translation or re-Gaelicisation from the English form. Divis is the highest hill in the Belfast Hills area and the 522nd highest in Ireland. Divis is the most southerly summit in the Belfast Hills area and also the most westerly. Our data has reached 90% of the goal for this summit. (Details)     COMMENTS for Divis Page 1 2 Next page >> Picture: Looking across the slopes of Divis to the distant Mournes Expand pics.   Well kept hill near Belfast City Short Summary created by wicklore  5 Jul 2010 Divis can be easily reached from J 265 742 (Point A) which is the start of the access road to the summit. The access road is approximately 3 kms long with a climb of 100 metres ascent over the last few hundred metres distance. There are great views down into Belfast City and further afield in all directions to the Mournes, Lough Neagh, the Sperrins and the Antrim Hills. The summit consists of two masts surrounded by a double security fence sitting atop a much larger area of concrete. There is also a neat modern stone cairn overlooking the city and Belfast Lough. Cattle graze in the fields along the access road so keep dogs on a lead. Divis is remarkably well kept considering its close proximity to the city. Point A: J265 742 (turn area map On) Comment Rating (4.00) Picture: looking over belfast Expand pics. by gerrym  7 Sep 2009 I have been driving over the hills past Divis on my way to work in Belfast for the past 5 years and thought it was about time i paid a visit! Starting point is the new National Trust carpark (265742 (Point A)) at nearly 1000ft and with good information boards. The carpark was doing good business on a not great day and i met numerous people walking, running and biking on the way - great! There are a number of colour coded walks and a good map can be printed off at walkni.com. Cross the road to start the long walk along the road heading for the masts in the distance. Red and white metal posts mark the edge of the road - guiding traffic on its way to the masts and previously the military base on the summit. A National Trust building provides information and facilities on the way and a strong wind and a lengthy shower kept me company. Ignore the turn uphill for the time and head past the very large transmitter mast for Black Mountain. The path crosses bog on raised platforms and plastic tiles to reach the trig (293748 (Point B)) in just over 2 miles. Great views over city and lough, protectively ringed by the lower Belfast hills to the west and the Craiganlet hills to the east. Views also south to the Mournes and Slive Gullion and west to the Sperrins. Return to the steeper road ignored earlier which quickly brings the summit of Divis (3.5 miles and just over an hour). This has a large bare surfaced area which is presumably where the military base was - with some new masts being erected on a small area. A walk around brings extensive views in all directions - E over the city, belfast lough, strangford lough and to Scotland, S to the Mournes, W over the entirety of Lough Neagh to the Sperrins, watching jets land and taxi at the international airport and N to the Antrim HIlls - not bad i would say. Drop back down to the hairpin bend in the road where can drop E down hill to reach a track which heads north - beware cows tramp these parts and the ground is none to even. This passes a standing stone at the Trust boundary before turning west at 286766 (Point C) on a rough track across the bog. This circles back around the mountain over waht was very wet ground before reaching a track which comes back to the road and carpark. A walk of 7 miles and nearly 2.5 hours reaching the heights above Belfast and giving fantastic views over the city and alot wider. Busy in parts but quiet on the tracks to the north. Point A: J265 742 Point B: J293 748 Point C: J286 766 (turn area map On) (Comment Rating 4.00) Your Score: Very useful <<  >>Average Picture: The top of Divis showing the newly cleared summit area. Expand pics.   by Harry Goodman  19 Jan 2010 This is the hill listed in MV which is nearest to my home. When I was there earlier in the summer I was pleased to note that work was in hand to remove the high, rusting, metal security fence that had, until relatively recently, surrounded a military installation which was based on the top for many years. While it had been possible to walk around the lengthy perimeter of the fence and speculate whether, you may or may not, have passed over the summit this was far from certain. In view of gerrym's recent comment's that the summit is "now a large bare surfaced area" I decided earlier this week to go and have a look. I was very pleased to see that all the old security fencing has gone and has been replaced by a much smaller stand surrounding two communications masts. This is set to the side of the large cleared area which now encompasses the unmarked top of Divis. There is a well constructed stone cairn, over two metres high, at the top of the tarmac access road up to Divis, which looks out majestically over Belfast, North Down and Cave Hill, but this is some 150 metres from the summit and was built when access was denied to the top. I have no information as to who built it. Maybe the National Trust, or the many walkers who go to the top of Divis, may consider it worthwhile errecting a small cairn to acknowledge the "re-claimed" high point of the Belfast Hills. There is plenty of available material to assist any cairn builders. If Divis had a Trig. Pillar in the past it is no longer there. Although Divis is a strollers hill with excellent and easy access to the top the walk can be varied to add a little sparkle to the climb. Although I started at the car park J265742 (Point A) and walked up the tarred road to pass through a gate and then the track going off to the left (Tipperary Road) I decided about 1.5 k into my walk to take to the open hillside and make straight for the top of Divis across the open moorland to add a little spice to what was otherwise an easy ramble up a tarred surface. Once across the top I dropped down NW along an ancient, grass and sod covered raised stone ditch J279755 (Point D). I followed this down to cross a stone surfaced track (Tipperary Road) and then up to the small rise of Armstrong's Hill J269756 (Point E). From there I continued down W along the ditch to the boundary fence of the Natioal Trust property where I turned left and followed it back to the start of the walk. However be warned although the Boundary is marked as a walking route by the National Trust there is little by way of a path and it can be very wet and boggy in places. Since first writing this comment on Divis I have now been advised that the original Divis Trig Pillar has been located by the National Trust and plans are being made to restore it to its rightful place to mark the highest point on the hill. Point A: J265 742 Point D: J279 755 Point E: J269 756 (turn area map On) (Comment Rating 4.00) Your Score: Very useful <<  >>Average Picture: The Mournes from Black Mountain Expand pics. Stunning view of the Mournes by kierongribbon  25 Jan 2011 Took a walk up Divis and Black Mountain on Sunday 23 January 2011. The views on the day were the best I've seen from the Belfast Hills (see photo - a labelled version is also available on Flickr). The Lagan valley, south Belfast and Lisburn were hidden under a layer of mist stretching all the way to Slieve Croob and the Mourne Mountains. Still no sign of the reinstated trig pillar at the summit of Divis - maybe it will appear some time during 2011... (Comment Rating 4.00) Your Score: Very useful <<  >>Average Triangulation Pillar by RossMc  6 Apr 2011 I enter this information as some other comments have mentioned it: The trig/triangulation pillar that was on Divis was removed in the early 1970s to facilitate the building of communications masts on the summit (OSNI were not very pleased that the pillar was removed). However, the pillar was not destroyed and was relocated outside OSNI HQ on the Stranmillis Road in Belfast. As mentioned in other comments, the National Trust plan to relocate the pillar to the smmit of Divis. See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1965391 (Point F) for a picture of the pillar. Point F: H965 391 (turn area map On) (Comment Rating 4.00) Your Score: Very useful <<  >>Average by cullens  4 Jan 2008 Coming from Belfast I have climbed Divis on several occasions. It is quite rewarding to reach the summit as you are presented with bird's eye views of the area in which you live. For those who love challanges I would not recommend Divis as a concrete path from the car park to the summit lines the gradual ascent and spoils the areas beauty. At the summit you are rewarded with bird's eye views of the city, Belfast lough and Scotland, on a good day, to the east. To the North you can see the beautiful scenery of the Antrim Plateu. To the South stands the summits of Donard and Commedagh above the summit of the nearby Black Mountain. The best time in my opinion to climb Divis is two hours at least before sunset in order to see the sun just above the Mournes on the horizon. Looking West you are rewrded with panoramic views of Lough Neagh in all its glory with the Sperrin Mountains dominating the far shore (Comment Rating 3.80) Your Score: Very useful <<  >>Average COMMENTS for Divis Page 1 2 Next page >> (End of comment section for Divis. Recent comments about other mountains below.) 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