Slieve League

{{short description|Mountain in County Donegal, Ireland}}

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| name = Slieve League

| other_name = Sliabh Liag

| photo = Slieve League, Ireland (17219489569).jpg

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| elevation_m = 601

| elevation_ref = {{cite book|title=North West Ulster: The Counties of London Derry, Donegal, Fermanagh and Tyrone|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IqDHhSIue1IC&dq=slieve+league+height+601&pg=PA166|access-date=1 May 2022|work=Alistair Rowan| isbn=0300096674 | last1=Rowan | first1=Alistair | date=January 1979 | publisher=Yale University Press }}{{cite web|title=Cliffs of Slieve League|url=https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/GeositesSlieveLeague|access-date=1 May 2022|work=The Geological Society}}

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| location = County Donegal, Ireland

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Slieve League or Slieve LiagMarshall, David (2006). Best walks in Ireland. London: Frances Lincoln, p. 139. {{ISBN|978-0-7112-2420-9}}. ({{Irish place name|Sliabh Liag|mountain of stone pillars}}){{cite web |title=Sliabh Liag/Slieve League |url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/111439 |publisher=Placenames Database of Ireland}} is a mountain on the Atlantic coast of County Donegal, Ireland. At {{convert|601|m|ft}}, it has the second-highest sea cliffs in Ireland after Croaghaun,{{cite book |last1=Fairbairn |first1=Helen |title=Ireland's Best Walks |date=2014 |publisher=Gill & Macmillan |page=86 |quote=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.}} and some of the highest sea cliffs in Europe.

Belfast naturalist Robert Lloyd Praeger wrote in 1939:

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.Praeger, Robert Lloyd (1997). The way that I went: an Irishman in Ireland. Cork: Collins Press, p. 41. {{ISBN|978-1-898256-35-9}}.

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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 are built along a precipice and include several places where the road turns at the crest of a rise.