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The Poets' Trail - Ballykeel Loop
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: Apr–Oct · highs 11–18 °C (52–64 °F)
- J7°2°106
- F7°2°77
- M9°3°88
- A11°4°77
- M14°7°80
- J16°10°81
- J18°12°81
- A18°12°94
- S16°10°89
- O12°7°112
- N9°5°108
- D7°3°108
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
- Mapped length
- 11 km · 7 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- 9.2 km E of Crossmaglen (Newry Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland) · GeoNames
- Best months
- Apr–Oct
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Region
- Newry and Mourne
- Continent
- Europe
- Route type
- Regional route
- From / to
- Mullaghbawn
- Shape
- Loop (OSM roundtrip=yes)
- Route centre
- 54.1190, -6.4853
- Route start
- 54.1115, -6.4679
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 17572663
- Official info
- visitmournemountains.co.uk/dbimgs/The-Poets-Trai
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.
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