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Barrow way

  • 02-01-2016 6:49am
    #1
    pat25c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 129 ✭✭


    I'm wondering if any one has cycled this route, just wanted to know what conditions were like . I will be using a hybrid with cyclo cross tyres . I did the royal canal to athlone last year & I would like to try the grand & possibly the barrow this year


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  • #2
    poochiem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 690 ✭✭✭poochiem


    Haven't done it myself. It's navigable at least though, someone left a comment on the Irish Trails site that they'd cycled it last August.


  • #3
    iwillhtfu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,373 ✭✭✭iwillhtfu


    I haven't cycled all of it but I've cycled from athy-Bagenalstown and it's a good surface. The grass can get a bit long at times it tends to grab on your pedals.

    If it's raining anyway heavy the track from Athy-Carlow might be under water/swampy.

    At the minute it's completely flooded around Carlow and I'd imagine the whole length of track is underwater.


  • #4
    pat25c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 129 ✭✭pat25c


    Is it well sign posted? , I had a couple of misteps on the royal canal


  • #5
    nilhg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,185 ✭✭✭nilhg


    I'd be familiar with a fair bit of Lowtown down to Athy, I'd imagine that in reasonable weather on a hybrid with CX tyres you'd have no much problem, and in quite a few places there are stretches of tarmac road on the towpath. Vicarstown to Athy for example.

    There's currently a proposal to upgrade the entire towpath of the barrow navigation to a blueway, hopefully it'll go ahead in a reasonable timeframe.

    http://www.waterwaysireland.org/Pages/Blueways/Barrow-Blueway.aspx


  • #6
    iwillhtfu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,373 ✭✭✭iwillhtfu


    pat25c wrote: »
    Is it well sign posted? , I had a couple of misteps on the royal canal

    The bit I've done you're alongside the barrow so it's hard to get lost I'm not sure what it's like once you go passed bagenalstown but I'd imagine it's straight forward.


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