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The Waterford Greenway
The Deise Greenway, or Waterford Greenway, offers a 46 Kilometre off road cycle path starting from the heart of Dungarven to the quays of Waterford city. The Greenway was built up several sections spanning over a course of 4 years. … Continue reading
Posted in Activity, Cycling, Waterford
Tagged cycling, deise, dungarven, greenway, kilmacthomas, kilmeaden, railway, tunnel, viaduct, waterford, Waterford Greenway
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Marlogue Woods – Walterstown, Cork
Marlogue Woods is located east of Cobh, best way to get there is by any mode of transport other than cycling. It’s somewhat of a short walk if you stick to the forest path which can be easily extended if … Continue reading
Posted in Activity, Cork, Forest, Hiking, Nature, Sun, Woods
Tagged cobh, cobh island, cork, great island, marlogue, woods
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The woods at Mount Desert near Cork City
One evening, I took notice of a wooded area on the other side of Lee Fields and was curious about visiting it. Here’s the highlighted map of the woods from Google Maps. It was only years later that I decided to … Continue reading
The Curraheen Cave
It was roughly in August 2015 when I decided to go off the beaten track at the Curraheen Walkway near the vicinity of Lee Fields and my eye caught something interesting at a small rock formation. From the few snaps I … Continue reading
Posted in Activity, Caves, Cork, Cork City, Nature, Places, Spelunking
Tagged adventure, caving, cork, curraheen, curraheen walkway, exploring, small cave, Spelunking
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The Beaumont Quarry Cave
With the quarry only being a stones throw away from work, I’ve decided recently to check out the place after reading Kieran McCarthy’s piece about it , what particularly caught my attention from the post was the mention of caves in it. … Continue reading
Posted in Activity, Cork, Cork City, Spelunking, Uncategorized
Tagged caving, cork, cork city, speleology, Spelunking
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A Tunnel at the Marina, Cork City
About two weeks ago I stumbled across a small tunnel near the old slipway by Dundanion Castle, roughly 1o meters in length it looks like it is being recently used as an illegal dumping spot. I checked Ordinance Survey Ireland … Continue reading
Mount Gabriel – Mizen Peninsula, Co. Cork
Mount Gabriel not only provides a pretty great view of the peninsular but also features some mine shafts as well. We managed to find at least 3 mine shafts close in proximity to the road leading up to the mountain … Continue reading
Posted in Caves, Cork, Mine, Mountain, Mountain, Scenery, Spelunking, Urbex
Tagged abandoned, ballydehob, baryite, exploring, mine, mine shaft, minecraft, mnt gabriel, mount gabriel, schull, spellunking
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Old Kenmare Road, Co. Kerry
We recently trekked a small part of the Old Kenmare road near Killarney, beautiful place to be in despite the bad weather we had for most of the day. Although we were soaked to the bone, we had a blast!
Carrig House, Lower Glanmire Road, Cork City
I’ve seen this late Georgian house across The Marina on several occasions and was always curious as to see what was inside it. Unfortunately, a fire in 2002 had destroyed most of the interior. An attempt to renovate it had … Continue reading
Posted in Building, Cork City, Uncategorized, Urbex
Tagged abandoned, carrig house, lower glanmire road, urbex
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The Ovens Cave, Cork
Here’s an interesting snippet from Charles Smith’s ‘The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork’ published in 1774: The Ovens or St Owens parish is washed on the S and E sides by the Bride and … Continue reading
Posted in Activity, Caves, Cork, Nature, Spelunking, Urbex
Tagged cave, mass rock, massrock, ovens, speleology, Spelunking, underground, urbex
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