Mount Melleray Pilgrim Paths - Byrne's Bridge

Loop Walk · Waterford

400

XP

about 3 h 9 min walking

Strenuous

12.2 km

Loop

4 hours

506 m

342 m

179 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

Hilly walk

4 steep stretches — marked on the map.

Climb

320 m

Drop

318 m

Highest

433 m

Lowest

203 m

Which way round

Clockwise: Easy first 1.6 km, climbs 12% for 300 m early on, comes down 15% for 230 m midway.

Anticlockwise: Climbs 15% for 230 m midway, comes down 12% for 300 m near the end.

Steep ground on both sides in similar amounts — go whichever way suits you.

Main descent: km 5.9–7.9, from 433 m to 275 m.

How the 13.1 km splits

Flat

2.7 km

Climbing

4.3 km

Steep climbing (10–15%)

0.5 km

Descending

5.1 km

Steep descending (10–15%)

0.5 km

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