The Mournes and Newcastle

Situated at the foot of the Mourne Mountains Newcastle is a vibrant coastal town popular for many as a holiday getaway destination and if a popular gateway to the Moure Mountain range via Donnard Park. The “Mournes” have been romantically immortalised by a line in from the the Percy French song “The Mountains of Mourne”

Oh, Mary, this London’s a wonderful sight
With people here working by day and by night
They don’t sow potatoes, nor barley nor wheat
But there’ gangs of them digging for gold in the streets
At least when I asked them that’s what I was told
So I just took a hand at this diggin’ for gold
But for all that I found there I might as well be
Where the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea.

Photos courtesy and (c) Ronnie Mills