Sheep's Head - Lighthouse Loop

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Loop Walk · Cork

200

about 57 min walking

Strenuous

3.7 km

Loop

2 hours

184 m

120 m

56 m

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Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.

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Weather at the start

Hilly walk

1 steep stretch — marked on the map.

Climb

115 m

Drop

115 m

Highest

175 m

Lowest

59 m

Which way round

Clockwise: Easy first 2.2 km, climbs 13% for 420 m near the end, no steep descents.

Anticlockwise: Easy first 1.6 km, no steep climbing, comes down 13% for 420 m early on.

Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (0.4 km at 10%+) and come down no steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.

Main climb: km 2.2–3.8, from 63 m to 175 m.

How the 3.8 km splits

Flat

0.6 km

Climbing

1.1 km

Steep climbing (10–15%)

0.4 km

Descending

1.7 km