Monthly Archives: May 2019

Stats: Weather, A little cloudy, pleasant later as the sun broke through  ; distance 10 Km, Height gain 400m.   We had a large contingent out today, the Grand Master Dermot, myself Ken, Hugh, Norman  and John and we were joined by our friends from Meetup, Amer & Blundell (both would make excellent chaperones for the Rose of Tralee) plus Cristina (our Italian Rose), Tatiana (our Brazilian Rose) and a new walker Erica (our Carlow Rose). And who knew that the dark horse Blundell was the poster boy for modern multicultural Ireland, with him just back from South America, [...]

A Brief History. © Tom Barragry The oldest walking club in Ireland is the Brotherhood of the Lug. It dates from 1903. It currently numbers about  25 members and on every second  Sunday of the month  it organises walks  through the Wicklow & Dublin  mountains , valleys, and  forests  . Additional walks are held on Wednesdays, usually along a flatter  terrain to suit some older members  ,or simply to suit some of our younger members who just wish to get out and about in a not too exertional fashion ,midweek.  Other walks go to the Comeraghs,The Dingle Way, Carrantoohil or the [...]

Glencree Barracks -A Short History Tom Barragry © If you have ever rambled up to Prince William's Seat, or Knocknagunn,or indeed over to Lough Bray the Eagles Crag, and Kippure,then there's a high chance that you either started or ended your hike by having a leisurely coffee in the small cafe of the Glencree Centre. But have you ever reflected on the interesting history of this building , the locale & its surroundings.? This building ,the Glencree Barracks, was built in 1806 to house British soldiers employed in policing the newly built Military Road which wound its way through the [...]

Tom Barragry © Between 4 million and 10,000 years ago, Ireland was covered by ice and glaciers . About 50,000 years ago, as the climate began to warm up, the ice melted and by 10,000 years ago it was all gone The resulting glaciers of that era had a huge chiselling effect on the visible landscape .The glaciers were moving , were of high mass and density , and exerted colossal downward pressure,and shearing forces on the adjacent rock faces. They followed straightforward and predictable principles of gravity, physics, mathematics and chemistry. Freezing and thawing, masses of ice moving downhill [...]

Stats: Weather, GLORIOUS SUNSHINE  ; distance 8.24 Km, Height gain 492m. We had four Lugs out, myself Ken Keaveney, Hugh Sweeney, Norman Mc Lachian and John Cruise, unfortunately the Grand Master had family commitments and wasn’t able to join us on this walk and there was a slight mixup with Amer from Meetup and he missed this walk but he is due to join our next walk with other friends from Meetup. This is a two car walk and was recommended by Rob Dixon who suggested that it would be a more substantial walk than some of our [...]

Stats: Weather, cloudy with sun breaking through the haze ; distance 7 Km, Height gain 308m. Most of the usual suspects were out this week, The Grand Master (Dermot Gunne), The Master in the Field (John ), Hugh Sweeney, Ken Keaveney, Norman McCloughlan, Pat Cashin & Noel Doyle. Noel opted to skip the first stage of the walk and leaving his car at the walks end, he planned to meet us as we approached Enniskerry. Hugh also opted to leave his car at the end as we needed 2 cars at each side which left myself (Ken) and Pat [...]

Archaelogy you can visit. Seefin Some Passage Tombs on Mountain Summits by Tom Barragry Seefin The megalithic passage tomb of Seefin is situated on the summit of a 622 m high mountain in North Wicklow. Nearby on the other summits - Seahan and Seefingan - and in clear view, are other cairns covering similar types of passage tombs. Seefin in fact is one of the four hills in the so called ‘Circuit of Kilbride’, taking in Seahan (648m), Corrig (618m), Seefingan (724m) and Seefin (622m). Corrig can be described as the poor relation of all of these summits as [...]