Slieve League — Local services in County Donegal

Slieve League or Slieve Liag is a mountain on the Atlantic coast of County Donegal, Ireland. At 601 metres, it has the second-highest sea cliffs in Ireland after Croaghaun, and some of the highest sea cliffs in Europe. From the Cliffs Centre, you can either drive right up to the main viewing area of the cliffs, or you can use the parking lot here and go on foot to the viewpoint. A walk in Ireland’s landscapes is a walk with Mother Nature, so choosing this option will treat you to beautiful scenery before you even reach the cliffs! From the viewpoint, the paths become rocky as you venture further up the wilds of Slieve League, so care must be taken when treading these paths. A guided walk of the cliffs will treat you to insights and stories about the local wildlife and landscapes, and for the experienced hikers, take the challenging journey from Pilgrim's Path along One Man’s Pass, which will bring you up to the summit of the cliffs. It is also believed that Slieve League was a place for pilgrimage before the arrival of Christianity to Ireland, with ancient stone remains dotted around the area. There is certainly a spiritual feeling as you journey up these mountains, surrounded by nature at its purest and most raw. 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. The Sliabh Liag (Slieve League) cliffs are truly breathtaking, the cliff face of Bunglas rises over 600m above the raging ocean. Only experienced walkers should venture beyond the viewing point onto One Man's Pass which loops around the Pilgrim's Path. The trail is a total of 2.8 kilometres in length, with a vertical elevation of 420 metres. Expect a one way trip to take around 90 minutes for the...

Amazing amazing amazing… BUT here’s a warning for hikers!: I can’t believe there aren’t any signs put up near the end of the good trail saying that it becomes dangerous from that point and no clear path marked. We walked the whole loop from Teelin up via Bunglass Point and continued up the trail and the ridge , passing just under the one man’s pass (CRAZY MANS PASS!) and then coming back down on the Pilgrims path. One of the most beautiful walks of my life BUT only do this whole loop if you have a map (I use mapy.cz which is a very handy hiking map app) , appropriate shoes, you have no fear of heights, are not alone and the weather is good. If all this is check, then you’ll have no problem walking the loop and it is mindblowingly epic! The trail continues up from Bunglass Viewpoint and is a very easy to follow and well kept path for a while. And then it slowly starts becoming less clear until you find yourself on the edge of the ridge with very muddy ground and loose rocks. I honestly think they should put a sign at the end of the good trail giving a warning. We were fine because we had the map app that showed us exactly where to go and the weather was good but without the map and with foggy conditions it could’ve been very dangerous. We found a lady walking the opposite direction to us at 5 pm on her own, looking incredibly lost and confused in a random spot on the hillside, it was just after we started coming out of the “scary/confusing” bit (that was about a 45 mins stretch) She had no map and the weather was just suddenly turning bad. We strongly suggested that she turned back so thankfully she did. The one man’s pass is incredibly dangerous to do especially in windy conditions. But there is a way to bypass it just below that bit of the ridge on the valley side of it.

Other than all this… it is an absolute must see place and was such a...

What an awesome place! I had read really good things about the views here and it definitely lived up to them.

To get there, I put in directions to Teelin, where there is supposedly a visitor's center that we couldn't find. From there, we followed the signs to the viewpoint. The road up to the viewpoint are very narrow (typical of Ireland). You'll come to one parking lot with a gate on the other side. This is just a sheep gate that you can open and continue driving up to the top.

Once at the top, the views of the cliffs are incredible. This had the best cliff views we saw in Ireland. It was way better (and less crowded/touristy) than the Cliffs of Moher.

You can hike to the summit from the parking lot, which we did. The views weren't really much different than they were from the parking lot, but the short climb was not nearly as steep as it looked. You can also get to the top from a different starting point via Pilgrim's Pass, but I read that it was very challenging even for experienced hikers so we decided not to do that.

There is a tiny little cart with gifts to buy, but no buildings or bathrooms.

This was one of my favorite things we did in Ireland and it is definitely worth...