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Route No:
3307
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Crag:
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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<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Map OSNI 1;50,000 Sheet 17</span></span></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The Ride.</span></b></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Starting and finishing in the charming border village of Belleek, this route ascends to<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>a watery wilderness in County Donegal,<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>returning across the flanks of Breesy Hill, (even at 258m, a prominent landmark in the area), <span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>on a rough track, before a long pleasant downhill cruise back into Fermanagh and the village.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>There is a very good thatched coffee shop, and several friendly hostelries in the main street.</span></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Mostly tarmac or forestry standard track, but with approx 1km rough open country (with only the vague trace of the road that was marked on the map).<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>This can be avoided by taking a parallel road.</span></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Time 3 hours. <span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>Height gain 320m, <span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>Distance 26km</span></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Approach</span></b></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">From Enniskillen follow the A46 towards Ballyshannon, turning right beyond Lower L.Erne into Belleek Village.</span></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The route</span></b></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">From the village centre follow the main Kesh road eastwards for just under 4 Km to Gr 98100 59800, just before a right hand bend, and turn left, off this busy thoroughfare.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>Follow this narrow road around the northern shores of Lough Scolban ( this is also the current route of the Ulster Way) turning left at a T junction at Gr 00900 61000.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>After about 1 Km, turn left uphill at Gr 01650<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>61750, ignoring the fact that it is marked as ‘No Through Road’ on signage.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>(If you don’t fancy a bit of ’off road’ and probably wet feet, continue to where the minor road you are on, rejoins the main Kesh road, and turn uphill there).</span></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The wet feet candidates continue past Tullyderg and Lower Curragh before the road become a track, descending for a short period into swampy oblivion, before rising again and skirting some trees on their right hand side.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>Soon a thin path leads into an old farmyard and rejoins the road that the dry foot brigade will have chosen.</span></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Horizons are suddenly broadened as this elevated remote road skirts a lough, and signs appear to explain to the very odd German, who might choose this way to enter the republic, that he must drive on the left.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>The road climbs past Lough Vearty to a cross roads where a sharp left is chosen leading along the shores of Lough Tullynasiddagh.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>Keep left at a fork* and soon this becomes a cart track which climbs across the eastern flanks of Breesy Hill.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>A ruined farmhouse is passed, with a nearby abandoned mobile home, before the track turns west, and distant views emerge of Ben Whiskin and the Dartry Mountains near Sligo.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>Ignoring all turns, tarmac<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>and human habitation will make a gradual appearance, and you reach a junction at Gr<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>94000 61900, Garryderg, where<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>you turn left, downhill.</span></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Mostly freewheeling from here, and <span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>about 3 Km later ,the village of Belleek is regained.</span></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">* Another alternative is to turn right here, visit some more lakes, before turning left at Kieby, Gr 93000 65000, and rejoining the described route at Garryderg.</span></p>
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