Sheep's Head - Mount Corrin Loop
Loop Walk · Cork
450
XP
about 3 h 13 min walking
314 m
161 m
7 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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Some very steep ground — marked on the map.
Climb
452 m
Drop
383 m
Highest
278 m
Lowest
19 m
Which way round
Anticlockwise: Easy first 3.5 km, climbs 22% for 320 m midway, comes down 19% for 350 m midway.
Clockwise: Climbs 19% for 350 m early on, comes down 22% for 320 m midway.
Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (1.3 km at 10%+, 0.6 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.7 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main climb: km 3.5–6.2, from 22 m to 275 m.
How the 12.3 km splits
Flat
2.1 km
Climbing
3.6 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
0.7 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
0.6 km
Descending
4.6 km
Very steep descending (15%+)
0.7 km