Slieve Aughty, cycle routes in the area.

3102derek

Booked a few days away in April with the wife (Leaving the kids at home), but was told I can bring the Road Bike.

Staying in Slieve Aughty Centry, Loughrea.

Andbody familiar with the area, what is like ? Any nice cycling routes i should look out for?

Hills wont be an issue and distance 100k ish

Carawaystick

You can do a lap of the mountains, ~70km
From Loughrea, counter clockwise
N66 to almost Gort
R353 to the crossroads with the R351
and back to Loughrea.

The highest bit of road over the mountains is
Leave Loughrea on the R351, take the right at the fork past Lough Rea ( the lake) to Kilenedeema (Kilnadeema west on google maps, not Earlspark. Stay going south and It'll bring you to Derrybrien.

The N66 is much improved recently, good surface, and widened a bit too over what it was.

A lap of Loughrea is 8km (the length of the bypass, and back through the town) - if you want to get some aimless kms...

https://www.strava.com/segments/10518135 - going up this
https://www.strava.com/segments/3353458

seanin4711

dastardly00 wrote:

I was planning on driving from Galway city to Westport on the morning of it. But I've read on the website that you have to register/sign-on the night before.

Seven springs cc on strava, loads of maps up