Knockmealdowns Trails - Sheep Hill Loop
Loop Walk · Tipperary
300
XP
about 2 h 19 min walking
313 m
190 m
68 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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2 steep stretches — marked on the map.
Climb
210 m
Drop
211 m
Highest
273 m
Lowest
81 m
Which way round
Anticlockwise: Easy first 1.6 km, climbs 12% for 520 m early on, comes down 13% for 350 m midway.
Clockwise: Easy first 1.5 km, climbs 13% for 350 m midway, comes down 12% for 520 m near the end.
Steep ground on both sides in similar amounts — go whichever way suits you.
Main descent: km 4.0–8.3, from 272 m to 100 m.
How the 9.8 km splits
Flat
2.9 km
Climbing
3.0 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
0.5 km
Descending
3.0 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.3 km