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Route No:
2738
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Annach Re Mhor
Aranmore Island
Barnesmore Gap - Biddy's Buttress
Barnesmore Gap - McDaid's Buttress
Ben Bulben
Ben Cormac (Lough Barra)
Bingorm Central (Lough Barra)
Bingorm East (Lough Barra)
Bingorm West (Lough Barra)
Binion Crags - Clonmany
Black Zawn (Breaghy Head)
Carrickfinn - Harbour crag
Carrigan Head (Black Rock)
Cathar Castle
Cooney Rock
Crag of Dan
Croc an affrain
Crohy Head South
Cruit Island
Cruit Island - Albatross Sea Wall
Cruit Island - Albatross Zawn
Cruit Island - Aughnish Point
Cruit Island - Back To Black Wall
Cruit Island - Black Wall
Cruit Island - Block Wall
Cruit Island - Cruit Cave
Cruit Island - Deep Gash Crag
Cruit Island - Far West Buttress
Cruit Island - Farmhouse Crag
Cruit Island - Flying Wedge Wall
Cruit Island - Forgotten Wall
Cruit Island - Frankonian Wall
Cruit Island - Golfers Crag
Cruit Island - Inis Oileantraigh
Cruit Island - Jock's Wall
Cruit Island - Lost Wall
Cruit Island - New Dawn Wall
Cruit Island - Scalpachore Wall. West Face
Cruit Island - Silent Wall
Cruit Island - The Outdoor Climbing Wall
Cruit Island - Torboy
Cruit Island - Traderg Wall Area
Cruit Island - Wall of Winter sun
Cruit Island - Wave Wall
Cruit Island - Western Island
Cruit Island - Zinken Wall
Cruit Island- Fogg Wall
Cruit Island- New Dawn Wall
Crummies Bay (Port Na Sionnach)
Culdaff (Dunmore Head) Left Crags.
Culdaff (Dunmore) Finbarr Wall
Culdaff - Dunmore Head
Culdaff - Dunowen (Brazil Rock)
Culdaff - Dunowen (Campsite Area)
Culdaff - Dunowen (Pinnacle Bay)
Culdaff - Galavoir Point
Dawros Head
Doagh Island
Donegal Bouldering
Dunaff Head, Binnastooka
Dungloon (Kinnego)
Dunsevrick
Eglish (Ceasefire Wall)
Eglish (Easter Wall)
Eglish (Far Easter Wall)
Eglish (Middle Easter Wall)
Eglish (The Gatepost)
Eglish - Glenbrittle Wall
Eglish - Teardrop Wall
Eglish Valley - The Outpost
Eglish, Kitchen Wall
End's of the Earth Crag
Errigal
Fogg Wall
Glascairns Hill
Glenagivne Wall (The Music House)
Glenagivne, Doherty\'s Folly
Glenveigh/Glenlack
Gola - Binatoke Back Wall
Gola - Binatoke NE Wall
Gola - Binatoke SW Wall
Gola - Binn an Rosuailt
Gola - Easter Wall
Gola - Gripple Wall
Gola - Inland Crag
Gola - Island Wall
Gola - Island Zawn
Gola - John’s Wall
Gola - Main Wall
Gola - Mhachaire na nGall Walls
Gola - Narrow Zawn
Gola - NW Zawn Area
Gola - NW Zawn End Wall
Gola - Owey Wall
Gola - Scoilt Uí Dhugáin
Gola - South Walls
Gola - South West Corner
Gola - Southside Buttress
Gola - Torglass Island
Gola - Twin Cave Buttress Area
Happy Valli Crag
Hawk Rock
Horn Head
Illanamarve - Inis Bo Finne Island
Irrenedox
Island View
King Mintiagh (Barnanmore)
Leenan Head
Lough Belshade (Belshade Buttress)
Lough Belshade (Blaeberry Buttress)
Lough Belshade (High Crags)
Lough Belshade (Two Tier Buttress)
Lough Belshade, Red Gully
Malin Head (Bamba\'s Buttress)
Malin Head (Devil\'s Bridge Area)
Malin Head (Dunaldragh Isle)
Malin Head (First Headland)
Malin Head (Magdalen Walls)
Malin Head (Sea Area Malin)
Malin Head (The cauldron)
Malin Head (Uncle Monty's)
Malin Head ,Skildren Mor.
Malin Head - Nobble Amphitheatre
Malin Head The Bow
Malin Laundry
Malinbeg (Alba Wall)
Malinbeg (Duan Head)
Malinbeg (Main West Wall)
Malinbeg (Narrow Zawn)
Malinbeg (North End)
Malinbeg (Prawn Zawn)
Malinbeg (South End)
Malinbeg (The Island)
Melmore - Boyeeghter Bay
Melmore- Altweary Bay
Melmore- Rosses Point
Melmore-Lough Beg
Mountain Bike Routes
Mountain Bike routes Inishowen
Muckish (Balor's Buttress)
Muckish (McSwyne's Buttress)
Muckross Head
Owey - Fluted Buttress
Owey Island (East)
Owey Island (West)
Owey Island, Torglass Offshore Area
Poisoned Glen (Ballaghageeha Buttress)
Poisoned Glen (Bearnas Buttress)
Poisoned Glen (Creag Na Mbreac)
Poisoned Glen (Last Small Buttress).
Poisoned Glen (The Castle)
Poisoned Glen (Trinity Buttress)
Poisoned Glen (West Buttress)
Poisoned Glen, Guinness Walls
Pollnalong
Port A Doris
Port Bay
Ramore Head, Portrush
Rathlin O'Byrne
Rocky Gap
Roskeeragh Point
Runkerry
Sail Rock
Scalp na gCapail
Sea Stack: Humped Ridge Stack
Sea Stacks and Pinnacles
Skelpoonagh Bay
Slieve Snaght
Sturrall Headland
Test Crag NI
The Crow's Nest
Tor Na Dumhcha
Tory Island
Tremone Bay
Umfin Island
Union Woods - Union Wall
Warm Bay Point
Winter Routes.
Winter Routes. Bluestacks
Winter Routes. Errigal
Winter Routes. Horse-Shoe Coire
Winter Routes. Mac Uchta.
Winter Routes. Maumlack.
Winter Routes. Muckish
Winter Routes. Poison Glen
Winter Routes. Slieve Snaght
Zermsnams
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Inishowen. Co Donegal. Map OS 1:50,000 Sheet 3 The Ride Combining a fine coastal path, with rough mountain tracks, a bit of “bush wacking”, and a beautiful riverside park, this route has everything, but permission! Time <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,\'Times New Roman\',\'Bitstream Charter\',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;\"> 3.3-4 hours </span> Distance ? Terrain <span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,\'Times New Roman\',\'Bitstream Charter\',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;\">Coastal path, beach, minor roads, unsurfaced mountain track, grassy path. Major ascent is early in the route!</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\"></span> Approach Through Derry/Londonderry to Buncrana. The Route Start in the coastal resort of Buncrana, at the car park (Gr C 343 324) at the Crana Estuary. There is a nice cafe (Fisherman’s Wharf) nearby, on Church St (just above the Lake of Shadows hotel), for refreshments, at the start or end, or both! There are currently no restrictions on cyclists on the Ned’s Point path, but it is very popular with walkers, so show extreme courtesy, and we might keep it that way. There is a “No Cycling” sign at the upper entrance to Swann Park, so if it is busy, avoid it and finish the loop by road, if it is quiet, you might be OK, but dismount where there are other walkers. Park as above, near the old bridge over the river Cranagh at GR C344 326. On the far side of this, turn right of Buncrana Castle, and immediately left of O\'Doherty’s Keep, on a good footpath, which soon leads down to the shore of Lough Swilly. Follow the concrete coastal path past Ned’s Point, (a Napoleonic Fortress), and Father Hegarty’s Rock, until you reach the beach at Stragill. Please dismount, or display extreme courtesy to pedestrians on this busy path. Cross the beach to GR 325 348, and at the far side, take the road running inland, and go left at the first crossroads, turning right again at the Loreto Convent junction, (Gr 318 356), turning inland, to a minor cross roads at Gr 324 364. Go straight through, uphill, and turn left at the next T junction (at Linsfort), taking the first right at Gr 326 368, climbing past a standing stone on the left, and crossing the Aghaweel River (unimpressive flow!) climbing to a junction at Gr 334 377. Turn right and almost immediately left, into a lung busting pedal up a track to the wind farm on Drumlough Hill. The climb is worth it, as soon, you are up amongst a forest of whirling windmills, with the distinctive profile of Bulbin (pronounced Bulabagh locally) Hill on your left. Pass the lake on your right, and take the first turn right at Gr 363 399, to circumnavigate, and descend,( delightfully) Beam Hill to another junction at Shandrim Gr 372 380. The views of the Mintiaghs, Slieve Snaght(Monarch of Inishowen) Sl.Main are magnificent from this elevated track, the descent of which is not steep enough to distract the rider from the magic of his/ her surroundings! Descend SW to the main Road R238, but avoid it by using the yellow alternative( the L7011), which becomes a narrow grassy path at Gr 373 365, just short of Drum. This can be heavy going for a kilometre or so, but it improves and rejoins the main R238, which is followed, crossing the River Crana, to Gr 349 328, on the fringes of Buncrana. Turn right,(signposted Dunree) cross a bridge , and consider the possibility of entering Swann Park on the left. There are “No Cycling” signs, but if no one is about!! . And you can always wheel the bike! It is a lovely place, a shame to miss, and will bring you back to the bridge close to the carpark.
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