Wicklow gap

get on your bike · 02-05-2011 12:02PM #1

So after coming into laragh then to take a right at wicklow gap. Grand but where does the Wicklow gap lead you eventually

Cheers

Cookie_Monster · 02-05-2011 12:04PM

N81, Blessington Valleymount and so forth depending on the route you take

Here's an example from yesterday
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/82709692

The reverse of the above would bring you from Laragh over WG around the reservoir and back over SG

get on your bike · 02-05-2011 12:08PM

Cheers. Can't open that on phone fir some reason but if I went up wg from laragh is there a sign that will bring u back to Sally gap

blorg · 02-05-2011 12:32PM

get on your bike wrote: »

Cheers. Can't open that on phone fir some reason but if I went up wg from laragh is there a sign that will bring u back to Sally gap

There is, just after Manor Kilbride you take a left and it brings you back up Sally Gap, but you would have to follow the signs for Valleymount first and it would be an extremely long ride (I am sensing, longer than you think.) You can plot this all out on Google Maps.

Cookie_Monster · 02-05-2011 01:13PM

Coming down the gap, after about 14km turn right for Valleymount, after another 3-4km turn right for Ballyknockan just before Valleymount, another 16km (about 3.5km after you pass the bridge to Blessington) there is another right, follow that for a final right onto the road over Sally gap.

As Blorg said, it best to have a look at it on google maps etc, but it is reasonably well signed.

BTH · 02-05-2011 02:48PM

Having never riden the Wicklow gap, from which direction is it most difficult? From laragh or from n81, or much the same.

blorg · 02-05-2011 02:57PM

From Laragh is a lot more difficult- shorter and steeper. From the N81 it goes on forever but rises more gradually.

get on your bike · 02-05-2011 06:51PM

Thanks. Sounds long tbh

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