Slieve League
Slieve League rises to 596 m. Slieve League SE Top stands 577 m to the east-southeast, 0.5 miles off. Wild Atlantic Way passes 0.7 miles off.
The story
Slieve League (Irish: Sliabh Liag, meaning 'mountain of stone pillars') is a mountain on the Atlantic coast of County Donegal, Ireland. At 601 metres (1,972 ft), it has the second-highest sea cliffs in Ireland, after Croaghaun, and some of the highest sea cliffs in Europe.
In his 1937 memoir The Way That I Went, the Irish naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger wrote of the location: A tall mountain of nearly 2000 feet, precipitous on its northern side, has been devoured by the sea till the southern face forms a precipice likewise, descending on this side right into the Atlantic from the long knife-edge which forms the summit. The traverse of this ridge, the "One Man's Path", is one of the most remarkable walks to be found in Ireland - not actually dangerous, but needing a good head and careful progress on a stormy day....The northern precipice, which drops 1500 feet into the coomb surrounding the Little Lough Agh, harbours the majority of the alpine plants of Slieve League, the most varied group of alpines to be found anywhere in Donegal.
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 kilometres of the route are built along a precipice and include several places at which the road turns at the crest of a rise.
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Wikidata Q1120038, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 596.4 m
How to reach it
- 0.7 mi off the Wild Atlantic Way, National
Overlooks nearby
- Slieve League · 2 mi
- Silver Strand Viewpoint · 3 mi
- Ocean Viewpoint · 3 mi
- Malin Beg Viewpoint · 4 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Slieve League SE Top: 0.5 mi
- Cnoc Ramhar: 1.2 mi
- Liathán: 2.0 mi
- Mullyoo: 3.6 mi
- Cruach Loch Doimhne: 3.9 mi
- Carrigan Head Signal Tower: 2.5 mi
- Malin Beg Watch Tower: 3.5 mi
- Donnchadh Mac Niallghuis: 4.0 mi
- Saint Asicus Settlement: 4.8 mi
- Glen Head Napoleonic Watchtower: 5.5 mi
- Tobernamanna: 3.4 mi
- St. Faned's Well: 3.9 mi
- St. Connell's Well: 4.0 mi
- St. Connell's Well: 4.5 mi
- Tobermurry: 4.6 mi
- An Trá Bhán: 2.9 mi
- An Trá Bheag (Trá Bheag an Ghleanna): 4.1 mi
- Traloar: 5.5 mi
- Trabane: 5.8 mi
- Maghera Strand: 10.8 mi
- An Trá Bhán: 2.9 mi
- Templecavan: 3.5 mi
- Maghera Waterfall: 10.7 mi
- Inishmurray Island Monastic Site: 15.4 mi
- Kilclooney More II: 15.8 mi
- Folk Village Museum: 4.1 mi
- Ardara Heritage Centre: 14.0 mi
- Spanish Armada Interpretive Centre: 19.4 mi
- St. Connell's Museum and Heritage Centre: 19.7 mi
- Donegal Railway Heritage Centre: 24.0 mi
- Rocks of Ireland: 4.1 mi
- Grotto: 10.4 mi
- Red Hugh O’ Donnell Commemorative: 23.7 mi
- Statue: 24.1 mi
- Countess Markievicz: 24.9 mi
- Eamonn Byrne Memorial Park: 8.9 mi
- Parc O Ceallaigh: 8.9 mi
- Killybegs Childrens Park: 10.8 mi
- Coolmore Park: 21.3 mi
- Maghera Waterfall: 10.6 mi
- The Devil's Chimney: 24.5 mi
- Crohy Head Sea Arch: 20.8 mi
- Doneen West: 24.3 mi
- Peace Garden: 16.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.5 miles of Slieve League. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slieve League SE Top | ESE 116° | 576.7 m | 0.5 mi |
| Maol na nDamh | ENE 73° | 529 m | 8.3 mi |
| Sliabh Tuaidh | NE 36° | 511 m | 8.9 mi |
| Common Mountain | ENE 65° | 499.7 m | 11.3 mi |
| Cnoc na Péiste | ENE 70° | 497 m | 9.8 mi |
| Crownarad | E 88° | 493 m | 8.2 mi |
| Mulnanaff | ENE 71° | 475 m | 8.7 mi |
| Slievetooey West Top | NNE 31° | 472 m | 8.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:39 | 18:00 | 18:48 |
| June solstice | 04:59 | 21:15 | 22:16 |
| September equinox | 07:21 | 18:49 | 19:36 |
| December solstice | 08:56 | 14:58 | 16:11 |
Local time (Europe/Dublin).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/332372782
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