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Maps for hiking Dublin / Wicklow / Leinster?

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  • 03-05-2013 5:16pm
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    Denalihighway
    Registered Users Posts: 1,075 ✭✭✭


    Hi lads
    Could you please recommend a shop where I can buy some proper maps for hiking the Dublin/Wicklow/Leinster hills?
    Thanks


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,464 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    In before BarryD does ... www.eastwestmapping.ie :)


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    Orion
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    +1 for EastWest maps. They're a better scale (1:30000) and more sensibly laid out. Instead of just using a national grid they cover an entire area of interest. It always rankled with me that for the routes up the highest mountain in Leinster you need two OS maps. You can get them online at the link Alun posted or in Easons, Great Outdoors and Reids on Nassau Street.


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    hmmm
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    The most accurate contours are on the Ordnance Survey maps, but other than that they offer little for hikers.

    The East West maps have great detail, but you'll need the 4 of them for good coverage.

    The Harveys Wicklow map offers reasonable detail on one map.

    Personally I always carry the Harveys map, and bring along whichever East West map covers the area I'm in.


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    BarryD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭BarryD


    Thanks Alun & Orion, for your kind comment in respect of my humble efforts :o
    Seriously, in respect of these forums, I should thank Alun & others for their interest in various features - I did update the likely position of the 1946 plane crash on Djouce following a thread on the Wicklow forum, I think. Alun indeed went up and lined up old photos of the time to establish the most likely landing/ crash spot - they were most unlucky, as the plane hit almost the crest of the ridge. Makes one wonder how many near misses there have been with aircraft just scraping over high ground.. Anyway, that update appears on the 2nd edition of the Dublin & North Wicklow Mountains map.


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    loobylou
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    Hi BarryD, hear you have a new map of the Blackstairs pending, any release date yet?


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    BarryD
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    See above Loobylou, hot more or less, off the press :)


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    statss
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    small world, I ordered the Dublin Mountains Way map this week direct from eastwestmapping...Hi Barry!


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,464 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    loobylou wrote: »
    Hi BarryD, hear you have a new map of the Blackstairs pending, any release date yet?
    I have mine already !


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    BarryD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭BarryD


    statss wrote: »
    small world, I ordered the Dublin Mountains Way map this week direct from eastwestmapping...Hi Barry!

    Good luck with the run :)


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