Sàileag
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Sàileag is Scottish mountain located on the northern side of Glen Shiel, 27 kilometres south east of Kyle of Lochalsh.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Sàileag
- Mountain.photo
- Saileag.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- Sàileag with the Five Sisters of Kintail behind seen from Sgurr a' Bhealaich Dheirg.
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 956
- Mountain.prominence
- c. 91 m
- Mountain.listing
- Munro
- Mountain.translation
- The Little Heel
- Mountain.language
- Gaelic
- Mountain.location
- Glen Shiel, Scotland
- Mountain.range
- Northwest Highlands
- Mountain.grid_ref_UK
- NH017148
- Mountain.topo
- OS Landranger 33, OS Explorer 414
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Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 956
- Image
- Saileag.jpg
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- OS grid reference
- NH0177714816
- topographic prominence
- 91
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- Sàileag
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Article
5 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Topography
- Ascents
- References
- Footnotes
Sàileag is Scottish mountain located on the northern side of Glen Shiel, 27 kilometres south east of Kyle of Lochalsh.
==Overview== It lies just to the east of the famous Five Sisters of Kintail group of hills to which it is connected by the Bealach an Lapain (725 metres). It is part of a mountain group called the North Glen Shiel Ridge which also includes two other Munros (Sgurr a' Bhealaich Dheirg and Aonach Meadhoin) and with a height of 956 metres (3136 feet) it is the lowest of all the six Munros on the northern side of Glen Shiel, making the mountain's translated name of “The Little Heel” quite appropriate. Sàileag seems to have lost three metres of height in recent years, many older guide books have its height as 959 metres in comparison to 956 on the newer Ordnance Survey maps.
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