Carrowteige – Black Ditch Loop

Hiking Moderate

County

Mayo

Distance

10.9 km

Duration

3 hours

Difficulty

Moderate

Total Ascent

270 m

Activity

Hiking

At the trailhead

  • Parking · Carrowteigue Village
  • Dogs allowed

This is a beautiful wild coastal walk in a landscape of bog and windswept mountainside with stirring seaward panoramas from towering cliff edges. It follows surfaced roadway, bog roads, grassy tracks and paths and takes you past the Children of Lir sculpture before heading inland with a fairly demanding ascent over open ground.

Download GPX Route data: Get Ireland Active – Sport Ireland

Elevation profile

0501001502000 km4.1 km8.2 km181 m

Elevation data: EU-DEM 25 m © European Union, Copernicus. Profile follows the main waymarked line.

Along the way

Viewpoints

Heritage & points of interest

Food & drink

Nature & wildlife

Herring GullChoughCommon Carder BeeGreen-veined WhiteWheatear

Data sources: map & points of interest © OpenStreetMap contributors · facilities from Get Ireland Active – Sport Ireland · species via GBIF · protected areas via NPWS.

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