Booherbreena

Limestone1

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=109543629735288133564.000488328e7cdb12c574d


I was up around Booherbreena about a year ago and ended up on a section of road surface that was very bad - can only assume it is worse now. I think that was the road between points A and D on this map. I am planning on being on the mapped section tomorrow - Can anybody give me an idea of the state of that road ?

Dr_Colossus

I was on that same road late last year for the first time ever and wouldn't describe that route between Ballincorney and Knockatillane as a road at all. It was more of a milary service track and not fit for any sort of road bike. I was on a mountain bike and even then it was ropey enough since most of the route is downhill from Booherbreena to the Sally Gap. I took the route as a means of avoiding the N81 but would advise any roadie to venture on and take in the longer smoother surface of the N81

Limestone1

Tks Dr , thats what I was afraid of - I have been directed down a few dirt tracks by the fact that google maps don't distinguish between L roads and bohreens ...

seamus

The road is mostly fine up between points A & B. It's the left turn off the Bohernabreena road that turns into a bohreen.

TinyExplosions

it's still perfectly cycleable on a road bike though... or was before the winter, and I doubt it's got a huge amount worse