Ireland is a land of legends, green hills and various extraordinary beauties of nature. And one of these strange but beautiful wonders is Mount Ben Bulben.

Mount Ben Balben is located in County Sligo, in the far northwest of Ireland, 10 kilometers north of the city of Sligo. The height of the mountain is 527 meters. Ben Balben towers over the entire county of Sligo and is its symbol. Along with Nocknari and Croag Patrick, Ben Balben is one of the 3 most famous mountains in Ireland.

According to Irish legends, this mountain was inhabited by a monstrous boar from Ben Balben, who was killed by Diarmade and buried in Leh-na-muik hill, near Drumcliffe. In Drumcliffe, at the foot of Ben Balben, according to his wishes, the great Irish poet WB Yeats is buried.

It is believed that today the mountain looks like this during the last ice age. It is known that initially it had a high “hump”, which was cut off by a creeping glacier. Ben Balben is composed almost entirely of limestone rocks.

Mount Ben Balben belongs to the mesas. Table Mountain (German Tafelberg, Spanish Mesa – in the lane table) is a mountain with a truncated, flat top. As a rule, mesas are composed of sedimentary rocks. The slopes of such mountains are usually steep, almost sheer. In cross-section, this type of geological formations has an oblong shape, that is, in one of the directions the plateau at the top of the mountain is elongated. The table mountains are truncated in their upper part due to the processes of denudation – erosion and weathering. One of the varieties of mesas are those mountains in which their flat top is not made of sedimentary rocks, but is covered with hardened volcanic lava crust.