Walking in Kerry Timeless Walk Through Our Liberators Shores

Derrynane Mass Path Loop 12 Walking in Kerry Timeless Walk through Our Liberators Shores km To Waterville N N70 0 1 Kerry Way E N70 To Kenmare Pre-Famine Homesteads F Kerry Way D Bealtra Pier P A C DERRYNANE HOUSE START HERE P Lamb’s Island P B Sand Dunes Abbey Island Derrynane Beach Derrynane House Key Information Directions to Trailhead Walking Time: 2.5 - 3 hrs depending on fitness Leave the N70 (Ring of Kerry road) Distance: 6.3 km turning down the minor Derrynane Road to Derrynane House – Signposted Grade: Moderate on the road as home of Daniel Gear: Hiking Boots, Rain Gear, Water, Snack O’Connell. Leave the car at the GPS for Car Park: 51 45.789 0 N 010 07.716 0 W. Car Park beside Derrynane House. Derrynane Mass Path - Timeless Walk through Our Liberators Shores This walk over the hillside and shoreline and through the grounds of Our Liberator, Daniel O’Connell’s home, tells the history of our people in a time when Catholics were banned from celebrating Mass. The people of Caherdaniel parish living in Farraniaragh, Coomatlauckane, and the islands of Scariff & Deenish (who rowed in by Curragh to Beal-tra-pier) walked this Mass Path during the Penal Times (in the 17th Century) to attend Mass at the Mass Rock which you will visit on your walk. It is fitting indeed, that Daniel O’Connell, one of Europe’s greatest Statesmen, led the Irish people and achieved Catholic Emancipation for our country and that during this walk you will visit his home, the Gardens & Derrynane National Park which his family left to the State. A to B Take a right turn out of the car D to E Follow the roadway gradually park heading for the double metal gates, back uphill, past farmhouses and grazing leading to a green hard surface road and the fields. Don’t forget to look back to see the grassy sand dunes ahead. Look right at the vista of Derrynane Bay. end of the path, after approx 150 m and a low stone marker with a yellow walking man After approx. 1.5 kms you will arrive at a sign symbol points away to your right along the pointing right off the road for the Kerry Way. bottom of the sand dunes. Passing through Turn right here. the next car park on your right, join a sealed track which leads to a minor road. Turn left E to F Your walk now takes you along the here and walk uphill. famous long distance trail, the Kerry way. Close by as you walk, you will pass ruins of C to D After another 200-300 m along the pre-famine homesteads, where they have minor road you approach a car park with a overlooked Derrynane Bay for hundreds of slipway for boats. Veer to the right and exit years. Continue to follow the arrows taking the car park through a gap in the old stone you in a south easterly direction along this wall. Follow rock steps down a narrow track. ancient road until you begin your descent to the Derrynane Road through native Continue following the mass path climbing woodland. Turn right at this road, going along rock-steps and through native downhill and arrive at Derrynane House woodland to an inlet where a stone marker through the whitewashed facade of the bell post with a yellow arrow marks the gate. Follow the hard surface track through shoreline. Turn right towards the rock slab the estate and back to your car. and climb along the gap in the slabs. This section can be slippy in wet weather as it is lf you like that - try this worn from years of boots treading along it. Enjoy the grounds of Derrynane House, the National Heritage Park, walk on Derrynane Approach the quay, Bealtra Pier, on your beach and visit Abbey Island. gentle descent to another sealed track and take the minor public road away from the pier on your right..

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