Walking All Over Tinahely

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Full title: Discover Tinahely County Wicklow

Creator / Author: Tinahely Community Projects (Walking & Tourism Committee); maps by EastWest Mapping

Item Type / Page count: Brochure / 1 double-sided page (58 x 42cms) folded down to 15 x 21cm

When Published: 2010

Publisher / Place of Publication: Tinahely Community Projects / Tinahely, Co. Wicklow

About: This is a well produced folded brochure / guide to the Tinahely area with particular emphasis on various walking trails. Each trail’s description is accompanied by photos and a map. Tinahely is designated as one of only six walking hubs in Ireland and also hosts an annual walking festival.

ID number(s): None

Contents: Tinahely General Information — The Wicklow Way (from Moyne to Tinahely) — Tinahely’s National Looped Walks — Mangan’s Loop — Ballycumber Loop — Kyle Loop — Railway Walk (from Togher Bridge to Tomnafinnoge Car Park) — Tomnafinnoge Wood — General Information.

Extra #1: Visit the associated website tinahely.ie

Extra #2: A new edition of this brochure was published in 2017. Titled ‘Walking in Tinahely, Co. Wicklow’ one side of the brochure is entirely taken up with a large map of the area.

Country Strolls for City Dwellers

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Full title: Hill Strolls Around Dublin: a guide to 24 short walks in the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains

Creator / Author: David Herman

Item Type / Page count: Book / 46p

When Published: May 1984

Publisher / Place of Publication: [The Author?] / [Dublin?]

About: Aimed at moderately fit people and family groups, this book details 24 walks in the hills around Dublin. The length of the routes vary from one hour’s duration to half a day. The starting points of some routes can be accessed using public transport while others will require a private car or bike. The beginning of the book provides much useful information for the first-time walker.

ID number(s): None

Contents: (1) Howth – (2) Three Rock Mountain – (3) Glenasmole – (4) Tibradden Mountain – (5) Above Stepaside – (6) Glencullen – (7) Bray Head – (8) Little Sugar Loaf – (9) Big Sugar Loaf – (10) Glencree River – (11) Glencree to Djouce Woods – (12) South Side of Glencree – (13) The Lough Brays – (14) Cloghoge River Valley – (15) The Inchavore River – (16) Ballydonnell Brook – (17) Around Camaderry – (18) Glendalough Forests – (19) Upper Lake Glendalough – (20) The Spink, Glendalough – (21) The Wicklow Gap – (22) The King’s River  – (23) Slievecorragh – (24) Hollywood Glen.

WW Connection #1: Some of the routes described in the book are located in the Western part of the Wicklow Mountains.

Extra #1: Includes sketch maps of every route.

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Twenty-Four Grand Days Out

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Full title: Hill Walkers Wicklow

Creator / Author: David Herman

Item Type / Page count: Book / 72p

When Published: March 1989

Publisher / Place of Publication: Shanksmare Publications / Not stated

About: This book details 24 one-day walking routes covering all parts of the Wicklow Mountains. First published in 1989, it has proved to be very popular with walkers and it has run through many editions. The number of routes in later editions has increased up to 30.

ID number(s): 0951454706 / 0953143317 / 0951454757

Contents: Introduction – The Routes: (1) The Tallaght Hills and Seefingan – (2) Circuit of Glencree – (3) The Dublin Hills – (4) Calary and Djouce to Enniskerry – (5) The North-East Fringe – (6) Glencree to Djouce – (7) Kippure and the Upper Liffey Valley – (8) Circuit of Glenbride – (9) Sally Gap to Mullaghcleevaun East Top – (10) Lugnagun, Black Hill and Mullaghacleevaun – (11) Lough Tay, Lough Dan and Scarr – (12) The Barnacullian Ridge and Tonelagee – (13) Circuit of Glenmacnass – (14) The Fair Mountain and Lough Firrib – (15) South of the King’s River – (16) Circuit of Glendalough – (17) Church Mountain and the Glen of Imaal – (18) Lugnaquilla from Glenmalure – (19) Carrawaystick and  Croaghan Moira – (20) Circuit of Glen Ow – (21) Keadeen and Slievemann – (22) The Upper Glen of Imaal – (23) Rathdrum to Glendalough – (24) Croaghan Kinsella – Eight Days in the Mountains – Bibliography – Useful addresses.

WW Connection #1: Many of the routes described in the book are located in West Wicklow.

Extra #1: Includes sketch maps of every route.

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Atop Twin Peaks

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(image Gareth McCormack)

Full title: Keadeen and Carrig

Creator / Author: David Herman, photos by Eoin Clarke

Item Type / Page count: Magazine Article / 3p

Journal Information: Walking World Ireland, Issue 57, pp. 20-22

When Published: Sept / Oct 2003

Publisher / Place of Publication: Athletic Promotions Ltd / Cherrywood House, Garville Drive, Garville Avenue, Rathgar, Dublin 6.

About: A short article which guides the walker to the top of the twin peaks of Keadeen and Carrig in West Wicklow. One feature of the walk is that the peaks “offer fine views of the plains of Kildare”.

ID number(s): 0791-8801

Extra #1: Check OCLC WorldCat.org for this publication in libraries worldwide.

Extra #2: Includes map and three colour photographs.

A Very Strenuous Route

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Full title: Lugnaquillia and the Glen of Imaal

Creator / Author: David Herman, photography by Michael J. Stead

Item Type / Page count: Book Chapter / 6p

When Published: 1995

Publisher / Place of Publication: Ward Lock / London.

Parent Publication [book]: Ireland: walker’s companion / by David Herman / 128pp

About: This is one of 23 walks that the author describes in a handy guide. He regards it as a ‘very strenuous route’ which covers over 15 miles starting and ending at the Glen of Imaal. It includes a detailed route description and map and comments on features of interest.

ID number(s): 0706373529 / 1860198791

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Extra #3: Includes map and two colour photographs.

Thirty-eight Years of Rambling the Wicklow Hills

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Full title: Listing and Index of Evening Herald Articles 1938 to 1975 by J. B. Malone on Walks, Cycles, Drives

Creator / Author: compiled by Frank Tracy

Item Type / Page count: Book & eBook / 139p

When Published: October 2014

Publisher / Place of Publication: Local Studies Section South Dublin Libraries / Unit 1, The Square Industrial Complex, Town Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24

About: During the period 1938-1975, J.B. Malone wrote almost 1,000 articles on rambling, walking, cycling or driving to and in the Dublin and Wicklow Mountains. Every article had a detailed sketch map of the route, drawn by himself. He was a leading figure in the establishment of the Wicklow Way in 1982. This book indexes all Malone’s articles published in the Evening Herald and makes it easy to locate his visits to individual places, mountains, hills and valleys.

ID number(s): 9780957511552

Contents: Foreword from Mayor Fintan Warfield – Introduction — Listing of Evening Herald Articles 1938 – 1975 — Index – Mountains — Index – Some Popular Locations – [List of Maps from Evening Herald articles drawn by J. B. Malone] Kilmashogue and Three Rock Mountain – Glenasmole — The Hellfire Club – Djouce – Lugnaquilla – Seahan — The Big Sugarloaf – Glendalough — Saggart Hill — Table Mountain.

WW Connection #1: Many of the routes described are located in West Wicklow.

Extra #1: Includes ten sample maps.

Extra #2: Check Libraries Ireland for this publication.

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Extra #4: Link to the full text of this book via South Dublin Libraries website

Hat-Tip: To South Dublin County Council Libraries for making this publication available for viewing online.

Walking in a Wicklow Wonderland

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Full title: Walking in Wicklow: a guide for travellers (afoot and awheel) through the Wicklow Mountains

Creator / Author: J. B. Malone

Item Type / Page count: Book / 172p

When Published: 1964

Publisher / Place of Publication: Helicon / Dublin

About: The classic walking guide to the Wicklow Hills. The author was well known for his ‘Open Air’ series of columns in the Evening Herald newspaper and a TV programme,  ‘Mountain and Meadow’.

ID number(s): None

Chapters: Ways and means — The Western quarter (1) Around the lake — (2) Over Church Mountain — (3) Glenbride to Snugboro — (4) Along St. Kevin’s road — (5) Climbing Cleevaun — Heather deserts (1) The military road — (2) Two mountain lakes — (3) On Calary edge — (4) Djouce and the coffin stone — Glendalough and Glenmalure (1) From glen to glen — (2) Crossing Borenacrow — (3) The proud mountain — (4) Queen of the south — (5) Lugnaquilla from Glenmalure — Glen Imaal and westward (1) The round of Imaal — (2) West of Baltinglass — (3) Lugnaquilla from Imaal — The deep south (1) Aghavanna to Avoca — (2) South to Shillelagh — (3) Rathvilly to Aghavanna — (4) Croghan country.

Extra #1: includes illustrations, maps and index.

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