Trails Around Limerick?

Thargor · 12-10-2020 4:11pm #1

Looking to do a bit of off road around Limerick on a new MTB, nothing mad, flat forest trails/gravel tracks would be ideal for me. Im going to check out Cratloe woods soon and up around Woodcock Hill over the next couple of weeks.

Looking on Google Earth I see a network of tracks and trails stretching from Bunlicky lake over the tunnel and a long way out the Shannon over towards the River Maigue:

They look ideal but how do you actually get on them? I asked in the Limerick forum but no answer.

Anywhere else like that around? Not really interested in technical stuff just off-road exploration/cross country trails.

Stark · 12-10-2020 5:15pm

Is Ballyhoura too far for you? The trails there are quite beginner friendly.

covey123 · 12-10-2020 9:10pm

Second for Ballyhouras,miles of fire roads if you don't fancy anything too technical,with the options of trying the trails.
Galtees and Silvermines mountains also not too far away.

Thargor · 12-10-2020 10:04pm

Oh yeah thanks should have mentioned I knew about those, Ill get to them sometime but they're all a drive though, I could be in the Burren or 20 other places for the same effort.

Is there anything else within cycling distance of the city like Cratloe and Woodcock Hill? I hear theres a lot of dirt tracks around Shannon Airport aswell, thats all Im looking for really.

I am genuinely baffled by those tracks along the Shannon, they'd be great for an evening spin for me when I felt like a change from the roadbike but I literally cannot find a way onto them, they're obviously seeing traffic but I cant think of a way onto them, there is a gate at the yellow arrow in my pic but its triple ziptied closed and I dont want to cut them:

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.6517318,-8.6725756,996m/data=!3m1!1e3

A couple of km of trails through a nature reserve outside my door would be perfect but its sealed off as far as I can tell...

covey123 · 12-10-2020 10:22pm

Thargor wrote: »

there is a gate at the yellow arrow in my pic but its triple ziptied closed and I dont want to cut them:

Easy, bring 6 cable ties with you on your spin.... put
3 on the gate on your way in,3 on the way out, it would be like you were never there:p:P

Biopace · 12-10-2020 11:16pm

Trails in and around Limerick

XC - Cratloe, Mooghaun Woods, Tountinne, Ballyhouras

Enduro style - Killaloe, Ballyhouras, Keeper Hill

Gravel - Cratloe/Gallows Hill, Ballyhouras, Slieve Felim way, Keeper Hill, Greenway from Rathkeale.

cletus · 13-10-2020 2:57pm

covey123 wrote: »

Easy, bring 6 cable ties with you on your spin.... put
3 on the gate on your way in,3 on the way out, it would be like you were never there:p:P

Or lift your bike over? Easier to ask for forgiveness, than ask for permission

Thargor · 13-10-2020 4:03pm

cletus wrote: »

Or lift your bike over? Easier to ask for forgiveness, than ask for permission

Its one of those 8 foot high ones they put in with that green spiky fencing that goes along by the motorways, tbh if I dont figure out a way in soon I probably will be opening it up, its starting to really annoy me

Treepole · 13-10-2020 4:06pm

Thargor wrote: »

Its one of those 8 foot high ones they put in with that green spiky fencing that goes along by the motorways, tbh if I dont figure out a way in soon I probably will be opening it up, its starting to really annoy me

If you look at Google Maps they seem to be accessible via the cement factory?

Thargor · 13-10-2020 4:19pm

Treepole wrote: »

If you look at Google Maps they seem to be accessible via the cement factory?

24 hour security down there, not a hope of going in that way.

mart 23 · 13-10-2020 4:41pm

Thargor wrote: »

24 hour security down there, not a hope of going in that way.

I think all green space around the lake is owned by the cement factory and as such its private land .

Treepole · 13-10-2020 5:05pm

Thargor wrote: »

24 hour security down there, not a hope of going in that way.

Well it is all private property. So if you were going in the other side it would be the same thing?

cletus · 13-10-2020 5:48pm

Treepole wrote: »

Well it is all private property. So if you were going in the other side it would be the same thing?

I presume it's less the morality of it, and more that the a trial security at one end won't let him pass

David6330 · 13-10-2020 7:46pm

Murroe / Glenstal Abbey Wood - fire road
Lough Derg Way - Starts from Limerick City and brings you out along by the hydro electric plant. Nice and flat
Theres a short trail from UL to Annacotty by the river.

Thargor · 13-10-2020 8:15pm

David6330 wrote: »

Murroe / Glenstal Abbey Wood - fire road
Lough Derg Way - Starts from Limerick City and brings you out along by the hydro electric plant. Nice and flat
Theres a short trail from UL to Annacotty by the river.

Some good ones there thanks, never heard of the Lough Derg Way.

cletus wrote: »

I presume it's less the morality of it, and more that the a trial security at one end won't let him pass

Yeah Ive already been down there its definitely a no-go. I think Ill be able to get in over this side if I cycle out past Mungret and come at it from that side up this road:

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.6357126,-8.7009442,3a,39.3y,319.75h,85.14t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sQGB7j6GYWIW8IM8lmnFfxw!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo3.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DQGB7j6GYWIW8IM8lmnFfxw%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D213.59558%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192

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