Mourne Granite

From the collection of

Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive
Launched in 2000, Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive spans from 1897 to the present day and currently contains an ever-expanding catalogue of 13,000 items. It comprises material from a variety of depositors including feature films, sport, documentaries, animation, amateur footage, light entertainment, and a significant proportion of broadcast material from the UTV Archive.

Mourne Granite


Man and machine use all their might to carve up the Mourne Mountains.

Get a close look at the men and machines that transform County Down's mountains into Belfast's curb stones and polished gravestones. These Mourne quarries are no longer in use, hikers and climbers have long since taken the place of the stone masons. However remains of worker's shelters still litter these mountains that inspired ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'.

In his essay ‘On Stories' C. S. Lewis wrote that 'I have seen landscapes, notably in the Mourne Mountains and southwards which under a particular light made me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge'. This material by E.T. Green is Courtesy of Waddell Media.


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