Why this ride
A 356 km round trip from Luimneach - roughly 5 h 30 in the saddle. It goes by way of Sceilg Mhichíl and Limerick. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Limerick long day · Sceilg Mhichíl
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 356 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 5 h 30
- 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. Limerick
Limerick sits on the Shannon, Ireland's longest river, at the point where it widens into a broad tidal estuary, and for a thousand years that position made it a prize. Vikings founded a settlement on King's Island in the tenth century, and the Normans built King John's Castle there in the early thirteenth, a massive walled fortress with round towers that still looms over the river. In 1691 the city withstood a long siege by William of Orange's army, and the Treaty of Limerick that ended the war is commemorated by the Treaty Stone, a lump of limestone beside Thomond Bridge.
Read the complete Limerick write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Limerick 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 110 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
221 km in you reach Sceilg Mhichíl. Next is back through Sceilg Mhichíl.
4. Back to Limerick
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limerick 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 Limerick.
5. Limerick
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Limerick write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Limerick. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Limerick to Sceilg Mhichíl
Limerick → Sceilg Mhichíl is 212 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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