Sheep's Head - Poet's Way Loop
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Apr–Sep, Nov · highs 11–17 °C (52–63 °F)
- J9°5°210
- F8°5°158
- M9°6°161
- A11°6°114
- M13°9°116
- J15°11°116
- J17°13°116
- A17°13°134
- S15°12°152
- O13°10°201
- N11°7°198
- D9°6°207
Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
Trail facts
- Length (signed)
- 16 km · 10 mi (OSM distance tag)
- Mapped length
- 12 km · 8 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- 13 km SE of Castletownbere (County Cork, Munster) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Apr–Sep, Nov
- Country
- Ireland
- Region
- Cork
- Continent
- Europe
- Route type
- Local route
- Shape
- Loop (OSM roundtrip=yes)
- Route centre
- 51.5547, -9.8109
- Route start
- 51.5458, -9.8268
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 2315895
- Official info
- sportireland.ie/redirect/trail/99
How it’s scored
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.