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The Kerry Way, Walking in Ireland
* the costal route from Waterville is shorter at 13km.
If you wish to walk the entire route you should allow around nine days. We would recommend that you buy a good book (one possible choice is The Kerry Way - Sandra Bardwell )which will give more detail on the route itself along with the relevant maps. You will not find one ordance survey map that covers the entite region but we would recommend that you get map numbers 78, 83 ,84 from the discovery series (from the OSI, Ordnance Survey Ireland). These in effect cover most of Kerry and can be purchased at any good bookshop. In general the walk starts and finishes in Killarney walking in an anticlockwise direction. As the walk is largely circular in nature with a few spurs you can start and finish where you please. The walking route predominantely follows paths and “unsurfaced roads” with no vehicular traffics (there are a few linking pieces on surfaced roads) and is generally quite frim underfoot. Sections of the walk go through forestry, national park and private farmland. (The Kerryway has been set up in agreeemnt with local farmers and landowners so please respect the landowners property. It is after all the source of their livelyhood). Parts of the route can be rough underfoot and parts can be boggy. That said for the most part the route is very well laid out and extremely pleasant. The |
