Sheep's Head - Castledonovan Loop
Loop Walk · Cork
450
XP
about 2 h 47 min walking
517 m
324 m
131 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
373 m
Drop
374 m
Highest
491 m
Lowest
140 m
Which way round
Clockwise: Climbs 14% for 380 m early on, comes down 17% for 1180 m midway.
Anticlockwise: Climbs 17% for 1180 m midway, comes down 14% for 380 m near the end.
Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (1.5 km at 10%+, 1.2 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.9 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main descent: km 5.1–10.8, from 490 m to 144 m.
How the 10.8 km splits
Flat
1.8 km
Climbing
2.7 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
0.3 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
1.2 km
Descending
3.9 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.6 km
Very steep descending (15%+)
0.3 km
Link it with other walks
Sheep's Head - St. Finbarr's Way (Drimoleague)
Shares 7.4 km of path · meets at km 0.5, 10.839.7 km
Sheep's Head - Glounaclohy Walk (Drimoleague)
Shares 3.9 km of path · meets at km 0.5, 10.85.4 km
Sheep's Head Way
Shares 3.3 km of path · meets at km 0.4, 5.9, 6.8…171.8 km
Sheep's Head - Mullaghmesha Loop
Shares 2.1 km of path · meets at km 5.910.4 km
Sheep's Head - Deelish Cascades Walk (Drimoleague)
Crosses at km 0.53.1 km