North Kilkenny Cycle Route

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Loop Walk · Kilkenny

650

about 7 h 24 min riding

Challenging

80.5 km

Loop

5 hours

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.

Navigate to the start

Weather at the start

Rolling ride

Gentle ups and downs, nothing steep.

Climb

829 m

Drop

828 m

Highest

280 m

Lowest

55 m

Which way round

Anticlockwise: Easy first 4.4 km, no steep climbing, no steep descents.

Clockwise: Easy first 32.1 km, 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 climb: km 31.4–34.2, from 133 m to 280 m.

How the 80.4 km splits

Flat

56.8 km

Climbing

12.4 km

Descending

11.1 km

Link it with other walks

North Kilkenny Cycle Loop

Starts here too · Shares 1.5 km of path · meets at km 19.2

23.9 km

Freshford Loop

Shares 1.2 km of path · meets at km 53.9, 55.1

5.6 km

East Kilkenny Cycle Route

Starts here too

62.6 km

South Kilkenny Cycle Loop

Starts here too

43.1 km

Campsites near the start

Here

0.6 km from the start · 4.3★ (6)

Tree Grove

1.7 km from the start · 4.6★ (577)

Nore Valley Park

10.3 km from the start · 4.3★ (1167)

Malzard’s RV Park & Camp

12.7 km from the start · 5.0★ (4)