Hi prikje,

Thanks very much for your kind words. I'm glad you enjoy my posts. Taking a break now the long winter nights are closing in but have plans to upload much more in 2011!

All the best,

Joe

I did half of this trail with my 3 kids (12, 11, 8) few weeks back. Was a first for them(hiking) but they loved it. Next weekend we are going to go to Glendalough and do the Waterfalls trail (I think is the Bronze one). Got a lot of help from your page so just here to say "Thanks".

You can see a summary of our trip here: http://www.weekend4kids.com/2011/02/05/the-hike-from-marlay-park-towards-knockree/


Louie

Hi Louie,

Only saw this post now. Glad you and the kids enjoyed yourselves. Surprised you couldn't find the trail head - it's right at the end of the Grange Road car park. It's marked with a map board and a low stone wall. Then the trail follows the stream through the trees to the College Road entrance.

All the best,

Joe

I am looking to do another one very soon with the kids. Do you have anything good and not too heavy?

Louie

BTW. Thanks for the reply.

Have you looked at the trails on the Dublin Mountains Partnership website at http://www.dublinmountains.ie/home/? Ticknock, Carrickgollogan, Massey Woods and the Hell Fire Club are very popular with families and there are short waymarked loop walks around all of them.

You could also look at the Irish Trails website (http://www.walkireland.ie/) which have walks of varying levels all around the country.

You might try the following of mine:

Bray Head (http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=662446)

The Scalp and Carrickgollogan (http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=547560) I used the bus for this one but details of where you can park are in the trip details.

Maulin (http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=547223)

You could also look at Howth. I did the full cliff walk and the Ben of Howth (http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=670470) which might be a bit much but there are a lot of shorter variations that are waymarked. You can find them on the Irish Trails site linked above.

Regards,

Joe

Thanks Joe. I will look into them and let you know how I get on.

You are a star.

Louie

It's a beautiful hike and Joe thanks so much for the detailed description. It was very helpful.

The above route is pretty much the standard route. It is quite a hike - this round trip is over 17km, so given the length and the altitude gain, you should calculate a 5-hour-roundtrip.

I will be using this trip to go up Lug when i visit Ireland end Aug. Which map is best to use would one of the 1:50000 OS maps be OK if so do you know the number