Why this ride
From Cill Airne it runs 168 km to Cill Airne; allow about 2 h 43 of riding. The stops in between: Sceilg Mhichíl and Killarney.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Killarney day out · Sceilg Mhichíl
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 168 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 43
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Killarney
Killarney is where Ireland's tourist trade began, and the landscape explains why. The town sits at the edge of a national park of lakes, woods and mountains, with the Lakes of Killarney, Lough Leane, Muckross Lake and the Upper Lake, strung out in a valley of oak, yew and arbutus. Behind rise Macgillycuddy's Reeks, with Carrauntoohil, the highest peak in Ireland at just over a thousand metres. Red deer, the only native herd in the country, roam the park, and the mild, wet climate keeps everything bright green.
Read the complete Killarney write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Killarney is where the day begins. Next is Sceilg Mhichíl.
2. Sceilg Mhichíl
Sceilg Mhichíl, in English Skellig Michael, is a pinnacle of rock rising out of the Atlantic about twelve kilometres off the Kerry coast, and it is one of those places that makes you wonder what kind of person would choose to live there. Monks did, starting somewhere around the sixth to eighth century, building a monastery of beehive-shaped stone huts, terraces and oratories on a ledge some two hundred metres above the waves, reached by roughly six hundred stone steps. They grew what they could, caught fish and birds, collected rainwater, and held services in some of the wildest conditions in Europe, until the community moved away in the thirteenth century. UNESCO listed the island in 1996.
Read the complete Sceilg Mhichíl write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Sceilg Mhichíl comes up 52 km in. Next is Sceilg Mhichíl.
3. Sceilg Mhichíl
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sceilg Mhichíl write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
105 km in you reach Sceilg Mhichíl. Next is back through Sceilg Mhichíl.
4. Back to Killarney
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Killarney write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Sceilg Mhichíl, late in the day. Next is Killarney.
5. Killarney
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Killarney write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Killarney. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Killarney to Sceilg Mhichíl
Killarney → Sceilg Mhichíl is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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