Slieve League

Slieve League or Slieve Liag[1] (Irish: Sliabh Liag, meaning 'mountain of stone pillars')[2] is a mountain on the Atlantic coast of County Donegal, Ireland. At 596 metres (1,955 ft), it has the second-highest sea cliffs in Ireland after Croaghaun,[3] and some of the highest sea cliffs in Europe.

The BelfastnaturalistRobert Lloyd Praeger wrote in 1939:

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Slieve League is often photographed from a viewpoint known as Bunglass. It can be reached by means of a narrow road that departs from Teelin. The final few kilometers of this route is built along a precipice and includes several places where it turns at the crest of a rise.

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  1. ^Marshall, David (2006). Best walks in Ireland. London: Frances Lincoln, p. 139. ISBN978-0-7112-2420-9 .
  2. ^"Sliabh Liag/Slieve League". Placenames Database of Ireland.
  3. ^Fairbairn, Helen (2014). Ireland's Best Walks. Gill & Macmillan. p. 86. Just where are Ireland's highest sea cliffs? Two coastal communities claim the bragging rights: Donegal's Slieve League awards itself the accolade, yet mighty Croaghaun on the western tip of Achill Island boasts cliffs that are both higher and marginally steeper.
  4. ^Praeger, Robert Lloyd (1997). The way that I went: an Irishman in Ireland. Cork: Collins Press, p. 41. ISBN978-1-898256-35-9 .