Ballingeary Loops – Gougane Barra Loop
Loop Walk · Cork
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about 5 h 37 min walking
600 m
300 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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3 steep stretches — marked on the map.
Climb
374 m
Drop
490 m
Highest
247 m
Lowest
87 m
Which way round
Clockwise: Climbs 14% for 640 m early on, comes down 12% for 270 m early on.
Anticlockwise: Climbs 12% for 270 m near the end, comes down 14% for 640 m near the end.
Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (1 km at 10%+) and come down 0.3 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main climb: km 0.5–2.5, from 91 m to 213 m.
How the 24.9 km splits
Flat
12.3 km
Climbing
4.2 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
1.0 km
Descending
7.2 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.3 km
Link it with other walks
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Ballingeary Loops – Eachros Loop
Starts here too · Shares 4.0 km of path · meets at km 9.4, 22.58.5 km
Ballingeary Loops – Rathgaskig Loop
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Ballingeary Loops – Kealvaugh Loop
Starts here too · Shares 0.2 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 11.3, 24.410 km