Bike Routes in Cork City

johnindbz

Hey Everyone,

I was wondering what the best routes were for cycling in cork with minimal road interaction.

I don't really like cycling on the road.

aFlabbyPanda

There are few to be honest. The atlantic pond is probably the largest or else along the lee fields.

johnindbz

That sounds great. Thank you

dobz95

My favourite non-road cycle in Cork City is when I cycle to Pairc Ui Chaoimh from Passage West and back again (I live in Blackrock). It's pretty much all of the amenity (railway line) walk, over the white bridge over the link road, back down onto tarmac, then you must take you're bike on the main road for 1-2 minutes max and you are back on a great walk way that takes you from Rochestown to the back of the main street in Passage West.

I've just moved back to Cork after 13 years living in Dublin and one of the things I wasn't looking forward to was the relative lack of amenities like cycle tracks and opportunities for leisure cycling in or within reach of the city.

However, there are some routes around and I found one I did last week very enjoyable.

I started at the bottom of the Curraheen Road in Bishopstown and cycled at the back of Murphy's Farm and CIT all the way to the Model Farm Road at McCarthy's Bar, where the cycle/pedestrian lane continues out to the Straight (Carrigrohane) Road.

You can cycle from there along the Lee Fields and out the back of the Kingsley Hotel and onto the Mardyke where you can rejoin a pathway just past the cricket grounds. That takes you to the bottom of the hill that leads up to Sunday's Well.

That's the end of the cycle lanes (mostly) for a while, but I just followed the quays and the river all the way to Jury's Inn (I had to cross over at Patrick's Bridge because the road changes to a one-way system) and then turn down by the Sextant Bar towards the port and onto Centre Park Road.

From there, you're back out of the traffic and you can join the Blackrock cycle/walking route at Páirc Uí Chaoimh heading for Rochestown rather than Blackrock Village (doesn't really matter which way you go).

From there, you can follow the railway line all the way to Passage West, but we hung a left at Harty's Quay and headed for Blackrock where we stopped for lunch.

We mostly followed the same route back, but we did find a different way through the city before rejoining the cycle route at the Mardyke.

It was a lovely day and around 80 percent of the route, which took around 3 hours at a leisurely pace, was on dedicated cycle routes or walkways. Getting through the city requires a bit of vigilance and some pedestrians can get jumpy when they see cyclists so we just slowed down as much as we could to avoid any hassle.

Hope this is of some help.

johnindbz

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I've just moved back to Cork after 13 years living in Dublin and one of the things I wasn't looking forward to was the relative lack of amenities like cycle tracks and opportunities for leisure cycling in or within reach of the city.

However, there are some routes around and I found one I did last week very enjoyable.

I started at the bottom of the Curraheen Road in Bishopstown and cycled at the back of Murphy's Farm and CIT all the way to the Model Farm Road at McCarthy's Bar, where the cycle/pedestrian lane continues out to the Straight (Carrigrohane) Road.

You can cycle from there along the Lee Fields and out the back of the Kingsley Hotel and onto the Mardyke where you can rejoin a pathway just past the cricket grounds. That takes you to the bottom of the hill that leads up to Sunday's Well.

That's the end of the cycle lanes (mostly) for a while, but I just followed the quays and the river all the way to Jury's Inn (I had to cross over at Patrick's Bridge because the road changes to a one-way system) and then turn down by the Sextant Bar towards the port and onto Centre Park Road.

From there, you're back out of the traffic and you can join the Blackrock cycle/walking route at Páirc Uí Chaoimh heading for Rochestown rather than Blackrock Village (doesn't really matter which way you go).

From there, you can follow the railway line all the way to Passage West, but we hung a left at Harty's Quay and headed for Blackrock where we stopped for lunch.

We mostly followed the same route back, but we did find a different way through the city before rejoining the cycle route at the Mardyke.

It was a lovely day and around 80 percent of the route, which took around 3 hours at a leisurely pace, was on dedicated cycle routes or walkways. Getting through the city requires a bit of vigilance and some pedestrians can get jumpy when they see cyclists so we just slowed down as much as we could to avoid any hassle.

Hope this is of some help.

Fantastic, Thank you