Guide/book for walking in Wicklow

alton

Hi all,

I'm looking for a guide/book for walking in wicklow, and was wondering if anyone could give any reccomendations?

From a quick look at the posts I've seen people recommend David Herman's book hill walking wicklow, but apparently it is out of print and quite dated?

Does anyone know of any other more up to date guides?

Thanks

dogmatix

Joss Lynam's "Easy walks near Dublin" and "Leisure walks near Dublin" are still on sale in most bookshops and cover wicklow very well. Most of the walks in the books are 3 hours and below but many of them can be combined into longer treks.

Krusty_Clown

EastWest mapping's guidebook to the Wicklow Way is first class.

Judge

dogmatix wrote: »

Joss Lynam's "Easy walks near Dublin" and "Leisure walks near Dublin" are still on sale in most bookshops and cover wicklow very well. Most of the walks in the books are 3 hours and below but many of them can be combined into longer treks.

I'll second the recommendation of the Lynam books and also add Best Irish Walks (ISBN 978-0-7171-3065-8), which was edited by Lynam and has 12 walks in the Dublin/Wicklow area. Paddy Dillon's The Mountains of Ireland (ISBN 978-1-85284-110-2) is also useful.

I'm not that fond of Herman's books - he's a bit too keen on bogtrotting for my liking and some of his routes are a bit hairy from an access rights point of view. You should be able to track down a copy of Hill Walker's Wicklow (ISBN 0-953143-31-7) in your local library, I'd say. Avoid his other book, Hill Stroller's Wicklow (ISBN 0-9514547-8-1), altogether; he spends the entire book moaning about how awful the walks he's describing are.

Also worth tracking down, either second hand or from the library, is Paddy Dillon's Twelve Walks in Glendalough (ISBN 0-9538612-0-1).

There are also some good routes in The Wicklow Walking Guide (ISBN 0-904169-85-5) produced by Wicklow County Tourism - I don't know if this is still in print: I got mine years ago in the tourist office in Bray.

Collins Press have recently been publishing a series of great guides for the west of Ireland; I hope we might see a Wicklow volume in the not too distant future.

If you're in town, by the way, Hodges Figgis have a table display on the ground floor at the moment with loads of walking books, all with about a 10% discount off the usual price.

puffishoes

just on the Lynam books his direction and description of how to get to the walk/start can be really hit and miss sometimes i've walked more trying to find the walk then on the walk itself