Sheep's Head - Rooska Loop
Loop Walk · Cork
500
XP
about 4 h 22 min walking
476 m
238 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
338 m
Drop
337 m
Highest
204 m
Lowest
0 m
Which way round
Anticlockwise: Easy first 8.1 km, climbs 12% for 550 m midway, comes down 13% for 320 m midway.
Clockwise: Easy first 4.7 km, climbs 13% for 320 m early on, comes down 12% for 550 m midway.
Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (0.9 km at 10%+, 0.3 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.3 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main climb: km 8.1–10.0, from 35 m to 201 m.
How the 19.0 km splits
Flat
9.3 km
Climbing
3.8 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
0.6 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
0.3 km
Descending
4.7 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.3 km
Link it with other walks
Sheep's Head Way
Starts here too · Shares 9.5 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 0.4, 0.8…171.8 km
The Sheep's Head Looped Cycle
Starts here too · Shares 8.6 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 1.8, 1.9…60.8 km
EuroVelo 1 Ireland - Atlantic Coast Route
Shares 2.3 km of path · meets at km 2.4, 3.1, 3.2…2300 km
Sheep's Head - Coomkeen Loop
Shares 2.2 km of path · meets at km 9.46.8 km