Sheep's Head - Mealagh Valley Loop
Loop Walk · Cork
400
XP
about 3 h 31 min walking
405 m
209 m
12 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
255 m
Drop
226 m
Highest
175 m
Lowest
89 m
Which way round
Clockwise: No steep climbing, comes down 15% for 220 m near the end.
Anticlockwise: Climbs 15% for 220 m early on, no steep descents.
Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (0.5 km at 10%+) 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 0.5–1.7, from 91 m to 172 m.
How the 15.7 km splits
Flat
7.9 km
Climbing
3.7 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
0.5 km
Descending
3.6 km
Link it with other walks
Sheep's Head - St. Finbarr's Way (Drimoleague)
Shares 7.0 km of path · meets at km 5.1, 9.9, 14.239.7 km
Sheep's Head - Mullaghmesha Loop
Starts here too · Shares 6.8 km of path · meets at km 3.7, 8.6, 15.710.4 km
Sheep's Head Way
Shares 3.7 km of path · meets at km 1.5, 6.1, 6.3…171.8 km
Sheep's Head - Mealagh Woods Loop
Shares 1.1 km of path · meets at km 5.0, 5.1, 9.8…2.9 km