Slieve Felim Way
Waymarked Way · Limerick
1,000
XP
a 2-day route
630 m
330 m
30 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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Climb
1007 m
Drop
1042 m
Highest
494 m
Lowest
75 m
A 2-day route, walked in stages. 1,000 XP for the whole route, claimed with a photo from it.
Which way round
Anticlockwise: Easy first 4.1 km, climbs 12% for 250 m near the end, comes down 13% for 880 m near the end.
Clockwise: Climbs 13% for 880 m early on, comes down 12% for 250 m early on.
Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (2.6 km at 10%+, 0.5 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.5 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main climb: km 0.1–3.3, from 118 m to 388 m.
How the 44.5 km splits
Flat
19.6 km
Climbing
9.0 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
2.1 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
0.5 km
Descending
12.7 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.5 km
Link it with other walks
Murroe - Glenstal Woods loop
Shares 5.4 km of path · meets at km 40.014 km
Ballyhourigan Woods Loop
Shares 4.4 km of path · meets at km 19.28.3 km
Slieve Felim - Keeper Hill summit walk
Shares 1.8 km of path · meets at km 14.87.9 km
Knockanroe Woods - Silvermines-Knockanroe loop
Shares 1.2 km of path · meets at km 5.14.1 km