Slieve Croob () is a mountain with a height of in the middle of
County Down,
Northern Ireland. It is the heart of a mountainous area known as the
Dromara Hills, north of the
Mourne Mountains. It is designated an
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is the source of the
River Lagan. There is a small road to the summit, where there is an ancient burial
cairn and several
transmitter stations with
radio masts. It has wide views over all of County Down and further afield. The Dromara Hills also includes Slievenisky, Cratlieve, Slievegarran and Slievenaboley. Slieve Croob may have been the mountain named
Brí Erigi or
Brí Airige in medieval writings. The cairn on its summit is believed to be the remains of an ancient
burial mound, possibly of a
passage tomb like the one on
Slieve Gullion. In the 19th century it was recorded to be around and in "conical height", with forty-two "pillar stones" or kerbstones around the edge. The cairn would have had a well-defined shape when it was built, but over time it has slipped and been damaged by visitors. Irish folklore holds that it is bad luck to damage such cairns. Some of its stones have been piled into smaller cairns on top of it,
St. Mary of the Angels is a Roman Catholic church prominently located within the village of Clanvaraghan. Construction of the Church lasted from 1936 to 1937, with the official consecration being carried out by Bishop Mageen on 26 September 1937. This was not the first church located in Clanvaraghan with a previous T-shape building being located in what is now the old graveyard. This older church was constructed in 1825 and succeeded another structure also on this same sight which was built in 1785. ==References==