Kanturk Hillwalkers and Mountain Climbers | Blog

  On Sunday 14 July ( Bastille day) Vive la France, the club outing was to Killarney. In Mediterranean type weather we left a town at 08.30. We travelled to Mucross house where we parked up. We headed  for Torc waterfall and continued up the steps, to join the Old Kenmare road. As we were a large group we formed into two smaller groups. The first group then went ahead with the second group to follow after an interval of 10 minutes.  The second group had some navigational issues to find the Kenmare road and after a vigorous work out we eventually got on track. The sun shone from a cloudless azure sky as we made our way along the valley between Torc and Mangerton, with the Owengarriffe river to our left. Then on to Esknamucky glen between Cromuglan  and  Stumpacommeen mountains. Reaching the junction for Galways bridge we followed the path to Derrycunnihy church by the N71. We rested here and crossed the busy road onto the path for Lord Brandon’s cottage. The...

A walk in the park. On Sunday 18/02/18 the club walk was the Muckross Lake Loop of 12 Klms. approx. We left town at 09.00 in convoy for Killarney, picking up some people in Rathmore and then proceeded to the car park at Muckross House. There was a good turnout, a mixture of young and old plus two dogs. There was a slight mist but no cold it was excellent weather for walking. The car park was full, evidence of the popularity of this beauty spot. We donned our rain gear and set off dogs on leads and sat nav in hand to navigate our way around the loop. On tarred paths we made our way to Muckross Lake. Keeping the lake to our right, and the magestic Torc mountain to our left, we set off. Across the water the Killarney Church spire could be seen. The path runs out, where the N 71 squeezes up to the lake shore. At this point we had to take to the road. After some time there is a path to the right which swings back to the shore. Continuing along this we come to the 200 year old Dinis c...