Benbulben, Sligo's "Table Mountain" is one of Ireland's most beautiful mountains. Together with much of Sligo's surrounding scenery it became a source of inspiration to the poet W.B Yeats and his artist brother, Jack. Indeed, today W.B. lies in rest at its foot in the graveyard in Drumcliff.

Benbulben's distinctive outline results from the different responses to erosion of the limestone and shale of which the mountain is formed. A hard and resistant limestone (the Dartry Limestone) forms the upper cliffs and precipices. Softer shales lower down the mountain are largely hidden beneath a scree formed of eroded fragments of Dartry limestone.

A panorama, extending for 6km, from Kings Mountain in the west to the cliffs above Glencar waterfall in the east, viewed from the layby on the Sligo - Manormilton Road. Below the limestone cliffs are patches of scree. Much of the land between the lough and the cliffs is landslip..