Sheep's Head - Seefin Loop
Loop Walk · Cork
500
XP
about 4 h 30 min walking
467 m
233 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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Climb
720 m
Drop
460 m
Highest
334 m
Lowest
4 m
Which way round
Anticlockwise: Climbs 21% for 600 m early on, comes down 19% for 900 m early on.
Clockwise: Climbs 19% for 900 m midway, comes down 21% for 600 m near the end.
Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (1.9 km at 10%+, 1.5 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.8 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main climb: km 0.0–4.1, from 8 m to 301 m.
How the 18.7 km splits
Flat
5.6 km
Climbing
5.6 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
0.4 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
1.5 km
Descending
4.8 km
Very steep descending (15%+)
0.8 km
Link it with other walks
Sheep's Head - Barán Loop
Starts here too · Shares 8.0 km of path · meets at km 4.2, 5.8, 6.0…8.7 km
Sheep's Head Way
Shares 2.4 km of path · meets at km 1.3, 5.8, 5.9…171.8 km
Sheep's Head - Glanlough Loop
Starts here too · Shares 1.7 km of path · meets at km 1.3, 7.0, 18.716.9 km
Sheep's Head - Mass Path
Shares 1.6 km of path · meets at km 1.4, 7.0, 18.74.5 km
The Sheep's Head Looped Cycle
Shares 1.0 km of path · meets at km 0.7, 6.2, 7.7…60.8 km
EuroVelo 1 Ireland - Atlantic Coast Route
Shares 0.9 km of path · meets at km 0.6, 5.8, 6.6…2300 km
Sheep's Head - Farranamanagh Loop
Shares 0.9 km of path · meets at km 11.46.2 km
Sheep's Head - Gortnakilly Loop
Crosses at km 5.27.9 km