Birr Cycle Hub Loop 3

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Loop Walk · Offaly

550

about 5 h 48 min riding

Challenging

73.1 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.

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Weather at the start

Rolling ride

Gentle ups and downs, nothing steep.

Climb

289 m

Drop

284 m

Highest

140 m

Lowest

34 m

Which way round

Anticlockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.

Clockwise: Easy first 46.4 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 descent: km 25.4–26.6, from 140 m to 76 m.

How the 73.0 km splits

Flat

64.7 km

Climbing

4.3 km

Descending

4.1 km

Link it with other walks

Birr Cycle Hub Loop 3 B

Starts here too · Shares 28.0 km of path · meets at km 0.2

44.2 km

Birr Cycle Hub Loop 5

Starts here too · Shares 19.4 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 53.1

41.9 km

Birr Cycle Hub Loop 4

Starts here too · Shares 8.5 km of path · meets at km 0.2

46.9 km

Birr Cycle Hub Loop 5 A

Starts here too · Shares 8.0 km of path · meets at km 45.2

11.2 km

Birr Cycle Hub Loop 3 A

Starts here too · Shares 5.9 km of path · meets at km 0.2

15.7 km

Offaly Way

Shares 3.0 km of path · meets at km 28.3, 37.8

38 km

Lough Boora - Turraun Walking Trail

Shares 1.9 km of path · meets at km 33.3, 37.8

15.5 km

Lough Boora - Turraun Cycle Route

Shares 1.9 km of path · meets at km 33.3, 37.8

15.5 km

Birr Cycle Hub Loop 1

Starts here too · Shares 1.5 km of path · meets at km 32.3

5.3 km

Birr Cycle Hub Loop 2

Starts here too

8.8 km

Challenges on this ride

Birr Castle: The Leviathan of Parsonstown

At km 0.0 · 148 m off the route · history

250 XP

Lough Boora: Sculpture on a Cutaway Bog

At km 33.6 · 336 m off the route · nature

225 XP

Shannon Harbour: Where the Grand Canal Meets the River

At km 56.2 · active

200 XP

Banagher: The Shannon Crossing and Cromwell's Bridgehead

At km 61.7 · 236 m off the route · history

200 XP

Campsites near the start

Tua Campsite

14 km from the start · 4.8★ (41)