Sunflower Books: Landscapes of IRELAND: WALKS AND CAR TOURS

Ireland, 3rd edition (published 2006); updated 12/09/09

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We have recently returned from a holiday in Kerry (August 2009) when we used your lovely book, and have a few comments which may be of use to future readers.

Walk 6. This is a lovely walk with magnificent views. On the return to the car-park along the main track you will see signs on the right to a river walk. Do take this as it makes a delightful end to this walk.

Walk 8 . Plan this with great care as when we visited the Cottage to check boat times etc. we found that the beginning of the route was almost impassable because of flooding. Some Kerry Way walkers had struggled through, but the water was above-knee depth. They mentioned that they had had to wade through three other such depths along this section of the Kerry Way so clearly, a problem area after heavy rain. We walked this section of the Kerry Way a couple of years ago but were slightly luckier with the water only ankle deep!

Walk 11. There seem to be some significant changes on the section of the Kerry Way after crossing the Capall river (2h). We did not encounter the iron gates mentioned until we had reached the instruction 'now fork sharp left uphill passing through yet another iron gate with a stile'. From here the best advice we can give is to simply follow the Kerry Way signs as the references to abandoned buildings did not seem to equate to what we found and it seemed as if some were being redeveloped and the track diverted to accommodate this.. However, the Kerry Way markers were fine and following them we made our way to the 'nose of the ridge' as mentioned and from there the instructions were as the book.