Sheep's Head - Peakeen Ridge Loop
Loop Walk · Cork
450
XP
about 2 h 57 min walking
371 m
219 m
67 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
325 m
Drop
312 m
Highest
333 m
Lowest
80 m
Which way round
Clockwise: Climbs 11% for 780 m early on, comes down 16% for 320 m midway.
Anticlockwise: Easy first 6.0 km, climbs 16% for 320 m midway, comes down 11% for 780 m near the end.
Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (1.2 km at 10%+, 0.7 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 6.0–9.6, from 86 m to 304 m.
How the 12.1 km splits
Flat
2.8 km
Climbing
3.1 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
0.5 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
0.6 km
Descending
4.4 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.8 km
Link it with other walks
Sheep's Head Way
Shares 4.6 km of path · meets at km 0.9, 1.2, 2.0…171.8 km
Sheep's Head - Peakeen Ridge Linear Walk
Starts here too · Shares 4.3 km of path · meets at km 0.2, 1.4, 12.15.7 km
The Sheep's Head Looped Cycle
Shares 1.7 km of path · meets at km 5.9, 6.460.8 km
Sheep's Head - Cahergal Loop
Shares 1.5 km of path · meets at km 7.88.6 km
Sheep's Head - Caher Loop
Crosses at km 8.06.1 km