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Hills around Swords

  • 11-06-2010 1:43pm
    #1
    mike12
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    Hi,
    Are there any decent climbs if i was doing a 30/40 km round trip cycle starting in swords without heading for Howth.
    Thanks Mike


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  • #2
    shaungil
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    Nags head is not too bad, hardest from the 5 roads on Old N1 and then you can drop sown to The Naul turn left over the three isters (not really climbs) and back home through Oldtown. Snowtown is dead ahead out of Naul if you want to go over to Stamullen Blascaddden and back in the N1.


  • #3
    Beasty
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    ... or Blackhills/Ardgillan off the the Skerries/Balbriggan coast road, short, sharp, and not particularly sweet! - 80m of climbing, mostly over the first km

    Nags Head is about 100m of climbing mainly over a 2.3 km stretch


  • #4
    kennyb3
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    Not sure if its the same as snowstown as shaungil (is snowstown just the first hill as you go through the naul coming from ballyboughal?) mentions but if you miss the turn for stamullen after the naul and that first hill I think there are 2 or 3 decent hills going towards drogheada. These combined with the hill up by hollywood lakes GC and the Naul hill make for decent amount of climbing in short space of time. prob best you ll get in NCD. either that or its hill repeats (not fun!)


  • #5
    GlennaMaddy
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    kennyb3 wrote: »
    Not sure if its the same as snowstown as shaungil mentions but if you miss the turn for stamullen after the naul and that first hill I think there are 2 or 3 decent hills going towards drogheada. These combined with the hill up by hollywood lakes GC and the Naul hill make for decent amount of climbing in short space of time. prob best you ll get in NCD.

    One of my favourite routes when I lived in Swords.
    Now living in Skerries and the various approaches to Bellewstown are my preferred hills in NCD (ECM really)


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