Birr Cycle Hub Loop 5

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Loop Walk · Offaly

200

about 3 h 22 min riding

Challenging

41.9 km

Loop

1 hour 20 minutes

600 m

300 m

0 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

Leisurely ride

Mostly flat, no real climbs.

Climb

162 m

Drop

159 m

Highest

77 m

Lowest

33 m

Which way round

Anticlockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.

Clockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.

A loop climbs and descends the same ground either way round. Waymarked trails are signed one way — follow the signs on the ground.

Main descent: km 13.5–14.4, from 75 m to 41 m.

How the 42.7 km splits

Flat

39.2 km

Climbing

1.7 km

Descending

1.8 km

Link it with other walks

Birr Cycle Hub Loop 3

Starts here too · Shares 20.2 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 19.8, 41.5

73.1 km

Birr Cycle Hub Loop 5 A

Starts here too · Shares 3.1 km of path · meets at km 16.6

11.2 km

Birr Cycle Hub Loop 1

Starts here too

5.3 km

Birr Cycle Hub Loop 2

Starts here too

8.8 km

Birr Cycle Hub Loop 3 B

Starts here too · Crosses at km 42.2

44.2 km

Birr Cycle Hub Loop 4

Starts here too · Crosses at km 42.2

46.9 km

Birr Cycle Hub Loop 4 A

Starts here too · Crosses at km 42.2

40.1 km

Birr Cycle Hub Loop 3 A

Starts here too · Crosses at km 42.2

15.7 km

Grand Canal Way

Crosses at km 19.0, 21.9, 22.1

117.1 km

Challenges on this ride

Birr Castle: The Leviathan of Parsonstown

At km 0.0 · 148 m off the route · history

250 XP

Shannon Harbour: Where the Grand Canal Meets the River

At km 22.2 · active

200 XP

Banagher: The Shannon Crossing and Cromwell's Bridgehead

At km 27.8 · 237 m off the route · history

200 XP

Campsites near the start

Tua Campsite

14 km from the start · 4.8★ (41)