Sneem Routes Query

fillup

Hi

Heading down to Kingdom next week and I'm looking for a few cycle routes.

I'll be based in Sneem and I'm looking for 60 to 80k routes with climbing and scenery

Cheers

sheesh

sneem to molls gap molls gap to kenmare kenmare to sneem

I think should cover you

ciaeim

fillup wrote: »

Hi

Heading down to Kingdom next week and I'm looking for a few cycle routes.

I'll be based in Sneem and I'm looking for 60 to 80k routes with climbing and scenery

Cheers

could tell you a 90k cycle with 3 good climbs and serious scenery as well, has 1100 meters of climbing.. leave sneem heading for molls gap after 12k turn left for ballaghbeama after 30k turn left for ballaghisheen and waterville, after 60 k you are in waterville heading for coomacista and then on to sneem.

funnights74

ciaeim wrote: »

could tell you a 90k cycle with 3 good climbs and serious scenery as well, has 1100 meters of climbing.. leave sneem heading for molls gap after 12k turn left for ballaghbeama after 30k turn left for ballaghisheen and waterville, after 60 k you are in waterville heading for coomacista and then on to sneem.

Outstanding route, breathtaking scenery but seriously tough. Bring your climbing legs for this one.

Buzwaldo

ciaeim wrote: »

could tell you a 90k cycle with 3 good climbs and serious scenery as well, has 1100 meters of climbing.. leave sneem heading for molls gap after 12k turn left for ballaghbeama after 30k turn left for ballaghisheen and waterville, after 60 k you are in waterville heading for coomacista and then on to sneem.

Plus one to do the Ballaghbeama Gap for Scenery and some climbing. Maybe down into Glencar and back by Killarney? (Or up the gap of Dunloe to Molls gap). Not looking at the map here, but Ballaghbeama and work back to Molls Gap will not disappoint, I promise you. Need to get down more often myself - jealous or what??

smacl

Here's a couple I did last year;

Sneem - Ballaghbeama - Mollsgap - Blackwater - Sneem ~100k. You could shorten this by skipping the blackwater loop.
Sneem-Ballaghbeama-Balligisheen-Waterville-Sneem ~92k

Both stunning with great climbing. Some of the back roads are a bit bumpt so I'd go 25s rather than 23s if you've got them.

ZiabR

smacl wrote: »

Sneem-Ballaghbeama-Balligisheen-Waterville-Sneem ~92k

This looks like a great route. I must give this one a go next time I am down.

fillup

Some great routes there lads - thanks

fillup

Hi

Quick report back after my trip to the kingdom:

I ended up doing this route: http://bikeroutetoaster.com/BRTWebUI/Course/573283 but started from Parknasilla which brought it to a 102k route with about 1400m of gain on it.

The weather was pretty sh1ttyon the day – a drizzly, misty, breezy kind of day, which meant that visibility was bad especially up Ballaghbeema and Ballaghisheen. The poor visibility made some of the descents pretty hairy especially coming off Ballaghisheen where I managed to come around a hairpin on the wrong side of the road but thankfully the roads were pretty empty (probably due to the bad weather)

Another hairy moment happened around Caherdaniel. It was the only piece of road that I came across on the day with a cycle lane marked out on it so I duly obliged and there I was cycling along in the lane, minding my own business and admiring yet another mist filled vista when a BMW drove past me. We were on a bend with a bit of an incline and as he was passing, Mr Beamer puts his foot down on the accelerator. His rear wheel drive fails to make traction with the greasy road surface and he loses control of his car as it skates across the road, does a 180 turn and ends up in the other lane facing downhill. Thankfully nothing was coming in the opposite direction or the BMW could’ve been shunted into me. The words Sh1te and Gob spring to mind. Fupper was old enough to know better too.

To make up for the poor visibility of that spin I ventured up to Ballaghbeema and back on a clearer day just to get the view. Lovely cycle (about 50k with 750m Gain) and a nice bit of bite on that last climb (Garmin clocked it at 16% at its max).
Beautiful day for it and feck all traffic on the roads.

All in all a successful outing down to the Kingdom spinning-wise and thanks again lads for the recommendations!