Route from Tully church over M50 towards leadmines

Cookie_Monster

Is this still a right of way? MAP

Was up along the Heronford lane thats connected to it the other day and there's a gate and style at the end.

I presume you can still walk the whole length of it ok?
Can you cycle it, if just lift bike through the style or is the ground un-suitable?
Would like to start using it frequently but obviously if its become closed to public since M50 put in then I won't

Thanks

Krusty_Clown

I still use it quite frequently for running. You can still walk/run the length of it.

Some points though:
1) The road conditions are appalling. I wouldn't attempt cycling it on anything other than a mountain bike (e.g. forget road/racing bikes).
2) Yes, you'll have to lift bikes over gates/styles
3) There are two nasty bastoid dogs at the top of Herenford Lane who will have a go at ya if they are out and about. I've had many a stand-off with them. Had one of them brush his teeth on my calf muscle once. There will be a reckoning some day. They're from the first house on the left as you go over the style (towards Rathmichael), or last house on the right travelling in the other direction. There are other dogs on the road who are extremely friendly.
4) After passing the Tully Burial ground, take a moment to admire the crosses in the nearby field and mounted on the roadside monument.
5) Watch out for horses (piebalds). You'll encounter them on occasion.

I love Heronford lane. Beautiful little valley, in hail, snow, sun and rain.

listermint

Was by there yesterday, you can get some odd eyes from the house dwellers at then end of the lane i suppose they dislike the disregard for the 'cul de sac' sign.

SerialComplaint

listermint wrote: »

Was by there yesterday, you can get some odd eyes from the house dwellers at then end of the lane i suppose they dislike the disregard for the 'cul de sac' sign.

It's not a private road. Other people are still entitled to use it.

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

3) There are two nasty bastoid dogs at the top of Herenford Lane who will have a go at ya if they are out and about. I've had many a stand-off with them. Had one of them brush his teeth on my calf muscle once. There will be a reckoning some day. They're from the first house on the left as you go over the style (towards Rathmichael), or last house on the right travelling in the other direction. There are other dogs on the road who are extremely friendly.

Did you ever try getting in touch with the Dog Warden; http://www.dlrcoco.ie/aboutus/councildepartments/environmentcultureandcommunity/findit/environment/animalcontrol/#Keeping Your Pet Under Control

Just wondering if there might be a solution there.

SerialComplaint

I cycled through from Rathmichael side this morning - no sign of any doggies. Just as well, as I was fairly knackered by the time I climbed up the hill to the gate at the top of Herenford Lane. I wouldn't have been in much of a state to fight off the doggies.

I'm kind-of amazed that they built a bridge over the M50 for Lehaunstown Road. It really is the road to nowhere. There is nothing on the Rathmichael side of the bridge, except the lane to the forest path leading to Herenford. Did they really build an entire bridge to accommodate us cyclists and a few runners?

Some nice houses in that vicinity - did you spot the curved 'Lehaunstown House' facing out onto the road - looked amazing, with their own pond. Google Street View even got a glimpse of it.

Krusty_Clown

SerialComplaint wrote: »

Did you ever try getting in touch with the Dog Warden; http://www.dlrcoco.ie/aboutus/councildepartments/environmentcultureandcommunity/findit/environment/animalcontrol/#Keeping Your Pet Under Control

Have run that way a few times recently, but haven't seen/been bothered by the dogs. Just a big bounding playful fella, who wouldn't whimper at you.

I presume they built the bridge as part of an agreement with a local land-owner as part of an M50 land procurement deal (access to farm-land and all that).

SerialComplaint

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

I presume they built the bridge as part of an agreement with a local land-owner as part of an M50 land procurement deal (access to farm-land and all that).

You could be right, but it still seems crazy, given that there is access from the Herenford Lane side, via the track by the forest. Wouldn't it have been cheaper just to buy the bloody land than to build a bridge?

dogmatix

There was always a connection between the Heronford lane and Lehaunstown long before the M50, I suppose they had to keep the route open even after the M50 opened. I walked this route a few years before the M50 and then again while they where building the M50.