Dublin to Nenagh

paulgs

Anyone ever done this spin have some relatives down this way and might be visiting them in the coming weeks was thinking of sending herself off down in the car with the kids and I would do the trip on the bike its 160k kms door to door checked it on google maps gives a time of 8 hrs ish.

ROK ON

paulgs wrote: »

Anyone ever done this spin have some relatives down this way and might be visiting them in the coming weeks was thinking of sending herself off down in the car with the kids and I would do the trip on the bike its 160k kms door to door checked it on google maps gives a time of 8 hrs ish.

Did Dublin to Limerick a few weeks back.
Cycled via Celbridge - Sallins - Monasterevin - portlaoise - Roscrea - Nenagh.

Good roads on the old N7. A grand cycle.

paulgs

ROK ON wrote: »

Did Dublin to Limerick a few weeks back.
Cycled via Celbridge - Sallins - Monasterevin - portlaoise - Roscrea - Nenagh.

Good roads on the old N7. A grand cycle.

How long did it take you

ROK ON

7 hours to Limerick.
Maybe 5.5hours to Nenagh I reckon.

Conditions were very good - absolutely no wind. Very dry day.
I took two short breaks - coffee and apple tart in Monasterevin and a fabulous 99 in Moneygall.

Road was very quiet - I did it on a Friday.

You can completely avoid Naas by going through Oberstown cottages or the Industrial estate by Sallins.
Takes a while to get through Newbridge and Portlaoise. Took bypass around Roscrea.

michaelm

Have done this a few times in the opposite direction. Main issue is how you get to Naas. Newlands, Red Cow etc is a nightmare so alternative needed, after that it is very straightforward. One other issue however is to consider the wind, 9 times out of ten you will be cycling right into a southwesterly, so best to keep an eye on the forecast.

Charlie19

Alternative route in reply to above. Clondalkin, city west, saggart, rathcoole, kilteel and on out to kilcullen.

deekster

I did Nenagh to Dublin last year. The Kildare to M50 bit was a bit tricky. I ended up going via Kilteel and found myself doing a lot of climbing that in hindsight I'd have preferred to have avoided!

So, consider the gradient and not just the shortest route. Good luck.

Koobcam

paulgs wrote: »

Anyone ever done this spin have some relatives down this way and might be visiting them in the coming weeks was thinking of sending herself off down in the car with the kids and I would do the trip on the bike its 160k kms door to door checked it on google maps gives a time of 8 hrs ish.

From Dublin, you'd normally have a headwind, so you'd want to check the forecast and see about that. Also, I personally find the old N7 a bit soul destroying as it's quite a boring road and has lots of long stretches with annoying little drags which you can see coming in the distance. Also, as someone else pointed out, getting to through the Red Cow is a bit dodgy, so that should be avoided. I think there are a good few back road options along the way-eg Rathcoole-Kilteel-Punchestown, on to the Curragh, then more back roads to Stradbally. Good also because the hedges will take the sting out of the wind if it's blowing.

paulgs

Cheers wouldn't have thought of the prevailing wind, put it into Google maps from lucan and it suggests celbridge, clane, prosperous, rathdangan, monasterevin etc etc