Ireland

Best walks, hikes and treks in Ireland [View list of walks]

Great Blasket Island Roads on Great Blasket Island - © Peter Church Dingle Peninsula Toward Mt Brandon from Camp, sunset - © William Mackesy Killarney National Park Across Muckross Lake to Purple Mountain - © William Mackesy

Best walks, hikes and treks in Ireland

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(The rating of walks marked * is currently provisional.)

Region Walk Name Walkopedia Rating Difficulty Day Walk
Possible?
  Croagh Patrick
83*
Moderate Yes
  Wicklow Way
0*
Moderate Yes
 Kerry, Dingle Peninsula Across Northern Mt Brandon Ridge
85
Moderate Yes
 Kerry, Dingle Peninsula Beenoskee and Stradbally Mountain
88*
Strenuous Yes
 Kerry, Dingle Peninsula Caherconree and Cliff Fort
84.5
Strenuous Yes
 Kerry, Dingle Peninsula Dingle Peninsula
88
Variable Yes
 Kerry, Dingle Peninsula Dingle Way
89
Variable Yes
 Kerry, Dingle Peninsula Great Blasket Island
87*
Moderate Yes
 Kerry, Dingle Peninsula Mt Brandon
88*
Strenuous Yes
 Kerry, Dingle Peninsula Sauce Creek Circuit
83
Moderate Yes
 Kerry, Dingle Peninsula Slievanea Ridge
82.5*
Variable Yes
 Kerry, Iveragh Peninsula Beenkeragh
86.5
Strenuous Yes
 Kerry, Iveragh Peninsula Caher
86.5
Strenuous Yes
 Kerry, Iveragh Peninsula Carrauntoohil
89
Variable Yes
 Kerry, Iveragh Peninsula Hag's Glen
0*
Yes
 Kerry, Iveragh Peninsula Iveragh Peninsula
88.5
Variable Yes
 Kerry, Iveragh Peninsula Kerry Way
88
Variable Yes
 Kerry, Iveragh Peninsula MacGillycuddy's Reeks
88.5
Variable Yes
 Kerry, Iveragh Peninsula MacGillycuddy's Reeks Traverse
88.5
Strenuous Yes
 Kerry, Iveragh Peninsula Skellig Michael
87
Variable Yes
 Kerry, Killarney NP Killarney Lakes
84
Moderate Yes
 Kerry, Killarney NP Killarney National Park
87
Variable Yes
 Kerry, Killarney NP Old Kenmare Road
82
Moderate Yes
 Kerry, Killarney NP Purple and Tomies Mountains
84*
Strenuous Yes
 Kerry, Killarney NP Torc Mountain
87
Moderate Yes
 Kerry/Cork Ireland's SW Peninsulas
88.5
Variable Yes
 Kerry/Cork, Beara Peninsula Beara Peninsula
85
Variable Yes
 Kerry/Cork, Beara Peninsula Beara Way
85
Variable Yes
 Kerry/Cork, Beara Peninsula Dursey Island and Beara Far West
81.5
Moderate Yes


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