Sheep's Head - Coomkeen Loop

Avandra

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Loop Walk · Cork

250

about 1 h 37 min walking

Moderate

6.8 km

Loop

3 hours

232 m

146 m

61 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

Steep walk

Some very steep ground — marked on the map.

Climb

153 m

Drop

148 m

Highest

204 m

Lowest

70 m

Which way round

Anticlockwise: Easy first 5.9 km, no steep climbing, comes down 17% for 230 m early on.

Clockwise: Easy first 3.1 km, climbs 17% for 230 m near the end, no steep descents.

Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (0.2 km at 10%+, 0.2 km of it 15%+) 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 3.1–5.0, from 85 m to 203 m.

How the 6.9 km splits

Flat

1.8 km

Climbing

2.3 km

Very steep climbing (15%+)

0.2 km

Descending

2.5 km