TWELVE WALKS IN GLENDALOUGH
By Paddy Dillon
Published by Drimbane Promotions
ISBN 0-9538612-0-1
Price £5.00

Frank Greally discussed the idea of publishing this book with the Glendalough Tourist Association, to present a series of walks to visitors in one of the most popular outdoor locations in Ireland. A week of walking was all it took to check the routes, and almost all the distance had been covered in several earlier visits to the area. The local walking guide, Christopher Stacey, looked over the plan of the routes and came on one of the walks. Waterford Crystal provided a measure of funding for the publication and in due course it was printed and ready for distribution. To see whole bundles of 50 copies at a time being snapped up for sale at outlets all through Glendalough was quite surprising, but it seems the market was ready for a one-off publication such as this. In a review in TGO (The Great Outdoors) magazine, Joss Lynam said, "The walks are meticulously described... with its photographs depicting the lakes, waterfalls, crags and rounded granite domes... a very good introduction to this wonderful part of Wild Wicklow"

WALK CONTENTS

Walk 1 - Glendasan Lead Mines
Walk 2 - The Seven Churches
Walk 3 - Derrybawn Forest & Green Road
Walk 4 - Glendalough Lead Mines
Walk 5 - Three Glens Forest Walk
Walk 6 - Trooperstown Hill
Walk 7 - Paddock Hill
Walk 8 - Mullacor & Derrybawn Mountain
Walk 9 - The Glendalough Horseshoe
Walk 10 - The Glendasan Horseshoe
Walk 11 - The Glenmacnass Horseshoe
Walk 12 - The Glory of Glendalough

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