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Ballyhoura - Castlepook Loop

Mountain Biking · Limerick

500

XP

about 5 h 11 min riding

Severe
48.5 km
Loop
6 hours
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660 m

360 m

60 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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Rolling ride

Gentle ups and downs, nothing steep.

Climb

863 m

Drop

863 m

Highest

403 m

Lowest

146 m

Which way round

Anticlockwise: No steep climbing, no steep descents.

Clockwise: 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 34.7–37.6, from 161 m to 319 m.

How the 48.4 km splits

Flat

21.8 km

Climbing

13.1 km

Descending

13.5 km

Link it with other walks

Ballyhoura - Streamhill Loop

Starts here too · Shares 35.5 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 37.0

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Ballyhoura - Garanne Loop

Starts here too · Shares 26.6 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 20.0, 38.9

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Ballyhoura - Mountrussel Loop

Starts here too · Shares 14.7 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 38.9

16.8 km

Ballyhoura - Greenwood Loop

Starts here too · Shares 5.0 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 43.0

5.9 km

Ballyhoura Way

Shares 3.1 km of path · meets at km 0.6, 1.8, 14.8…

89 km

Ballinaboola Loop

Shares 2.6 km of path · meets at km 13.4, 14.8, 15.3…

9.3 km

Knockduv Loop - Ballinaboola

Shares 1.6 km of path · meets at km 13.4, 14.8

3.9 km

Ballyhoura - Blackrock Loop

Shares 1.0 km of path · meets at km 0.6, 1.8, 42.9…

10 km

Ballyhoura - Lyre na Freaghaun

Shares 0.5 km of path · meets at km 0.2, 1.7, 44.5…

4.9 km

Ballyhoura - Nature Trail

Starts here too · Shares 0.4 km of path · meets at km 0.2, 44.5, 45.5

2.4 km

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