The Skelligs Way

Linear Trail · Kerry

400

XP

about 2 h 53 min walking

Moderate

11.8 km

Linear

3.5 hours

300 m

150 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

Steep walk

Some very steep ground — marked on the map.

Climb

248 m

Drop

308 m

Highest

275 m

Lowest

2 m

Which way round

Clockwise: Easy first 3.4 km, climbs 16% for 230 m midway, comes down 17% for 700 m near the end.

Anticlockwise: Easy first 2.5 km, climbs 17% for 700 m early on, comes down 16% for 230 m midway.

Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (1 km at 10%+, 1 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.2 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.

Main descent: km 4.4–8.4, from 273 m to 32 m.

How the 11.8 km splits

Flat

3.8 km

Climbing

1.8 km

Very steep climbing (15%+)

1.0 km

Descending

5.1 km

Very steep descending (15%+)

0.2 km