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Festival Walks
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All Walks may be subject to changes at any time
at the leaders' discretion. No children under 16 years. No dogs All Buses depart and return to registration centre Friday 9th September 2011. Festival Opening and Registration: 1.00pm to
1.30pm Bus Departs: 1.30pm Grade II Slieve Gullion Approx 8km Height Gain: 574m Route: Killeavy Old Church >Ballard >North Cairn
>South Cairn > Slieve Gullion Car Park A huge
heather clad bulk of mountain overlooking the South Armagh countryside and encircled
by a geologically unique ring of hills known as a Ring Dyke. Saturday 10th September 2011 Registration: 8.45am Bus Departs: 9.30am for 3 main walks Grade I Mournes: Approx 12km Height Gain: 1060m Route: Happy Valley – Meelmore
– Slieve Bernagh – Slievenaglogh
– Slieve Carrag – Slieve Commedagh
– Shan Slieve – Donard Park This is
a strenuous Grade I Walk in the high Mournes with
beautiful views over all the peaks and into Newcastle and Dundrum
Bay. Grade II Mournes: Approx 12km Height Gain: 480m Route: Happy Valley – Col at Meelmore/Meelbeg – Hare’s Gap – Brandy Pad – Col at Donard/ Commedagh – Slieve Commedagh – Shan Slieve – Donard
Park A most
enjoyable walk on the western side of the Mournes
with tracking into the centre of the Mournes and
finishing with spectacular views where the Mournes
sweep down to the sea.. Grade II Cooleys: Approx 12km Height Gain: 500m Route: Ravensdale Forest – Ben Rock – Clermont Cairn – Cairnawaddy – The Castle – Lumpers
Pub. A
Beautiful introduction to the heathery mountains of this area rich in the
folklore of Cuchulainn who walked these hills 2000
years ago. |
Grade III Registration: 11:30 am. Bus departs: 12 noon Gap of the North History Walk – 5 km The
walk starts at Faughart Graveyard, near site of
battle in 1318 in which Edward Bruce was killed. Walk continues past St Brigid’s Shrine through the Gap of the North where
O’Neill fought Mountjoy in 1600, and on to Moyra Castle and the Kilnasaggart
Stone. Walk ends near Jonesborough at the Carrickdale
Hotel Sunday 11th September 2011. Registration: 9.00am Bus Departs: 9.30am for 3 main walks Grade I Mournes: Approx 14km Height Gain: 950m Route: Attical – Slivemageogh –
Pigeon – Slievemoughanmore – Eagle – Shanlieve – Pierces Castle – Tornamrock
– Rocky – Leitrim Lodge. This is
a strenuous grade 1 walk sarting in the East of the
Mournes and encompassing some of the better ridge
walks in the Mournes. Grade II Mournes: Approx 9km Height Gain: 620m Route: Attical – Eagle – Shanlieve
– Pierces Castle – Tornamrock – Leitrim Lodge. Commencing
Eastern side of the Mournes, this walk takes us
over one of the most prominent mountains in the Mournes
- Eagle mountain and finishes inm the tranquil settings of Leitrim Lodge Grade II Cooleys: Approx 12km Height Gain: 589m Route: Carlingford > Forest Car Park > Eagle Rock >
Slieve Foye > Barnavave
> Ruined Village>Carlingford A
craggy mountain dominating the Carlingford
landscape with a famous ridge stretching 2 kilometres from the head at 589m
to the toe at 384m. Grade III Smuggler’s Walk (South Armagh Border) – 4 km,
Height gain: 200 m Registration: 11:30 am. Bus departs: 12
noon The
walk starts from Cornamucklagh House (Davey’s Pub).
We visit the site of a monastery in the Ferry Wood wiped out by the Vikings
in 845, then follow the border stream up through
Fathom Wood to Larry Tam’s Loanan where a poet and
highwayman came to a bad end. Back by secret lanes and pathways to Cornamucklagh House. |
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You can
register for all walks at Killeavy Football Club, Carn Road, (off the Forkhill Road) this includes transport costs. There is no
pre-registration required. |
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