Sheep's Head - Poet's Way Loop
Loop Walk · Cork
350
XP
about 3 h 2 min walking
313 m
156 m
0 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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3 steep stretches — marked on the map.
Climb
316 m
Drop
309 m
Highest
228 m
Lowest
9 m
Which way round
Clockwise: Easy first 4.7 km, climbs 14% for 280 m near the end, comes down 14% for 400 m early on.
Anticlockwise: Easy first 7.8 km, climbs 14% for 400 m midway, comes down 14% for 280 m early on.
Steep ground on both sides in similar amounts — go whichever way suits you.
Main descent: km 0.5–2.2, from 174 m to 63 m.
How the 12.5 km splits
Flat
2.7 km
Climbing
4.7 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
0.6 km
Descending
4.1 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.4 km
Link it with other walks
Sheep's Head Way
Shares 9.8 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 1.4, 1.7…171.8 km
Sheep's Head - Lighthouse Loop
Starts here too · Shares 3.1 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 12.43.7 km
Sheep's Head - Cahergal Loop
Shares 1.4 km of path · meets at km 6.88.6 km
The Sheep's Head Looped Cycle
Crosses at km 0.0, 9.3, 12.360.8 km