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01/01/2026

29/12/2025

Our wee mid-winter ‘walking festival’ continues! So far it’s been incredibly enjoyable on the byways and hills of the Lee Valley and beyond. A lovely way to spend the holidays with the best people! ❤️

Tuesday 30
Exploring the Gearagh - Macroom’s post glacial alluvial forest wetland. 1.30-4pm
€20 members.
€25 non-members
Booking by Monday 7pm

Thurs Jan 1 The Paps Mountains (or one at least!). It’s a tradition and a great way to start the year!
10am (c4 hours)
€25 members
€30 non-members
Booking by Wednesday 7pm

Jan 3:
Peninsula walk on the Sheep’s Head Way. Off road on way marked trails and minor road (10-15k).
10am (3-4 hours).
€25 members
€30 non-members
Booking by Friday 7pm

Jan 4:
Local walk in the Clondrohid area. Minor roads, Boreens and forest roads. Archaeological interest. c10k. (9.30-12.30)
€20 members.
€25 non-members
Booking by Saturday 7pm

Tuesday Jan 6
Nollaig na mBan walk! Macroom to Cill na Martra via Dundareirke (1.30-4.00).
€20 members.
€25 non-members
Booking by Monday 7pm

Booking via PayPal. Details 0872231225

20/12/2025

Seasonal walks

Seasonal walks Dec 21 to Jan 6 🎅 🤶 🎄

We have a lovely line up of walks to tempt you outdoors over the holiday period!
Relaxed and informative small-group walks.

Booking essential. 0872231225
Catherine, Lee Valley Walking

Sunday 21 Winter Solstice 9.30am start.
Walking from the Top of Coom to Cúil Aodha village via backroads, finishing at the Scoil Scairte for a few poems and maybe even a song! Bring along a verse to read or make something up!
Backroads and crossing a field to see a 5-stone circle.
Returning to the Top of Coom afterwards for whatever you’re having yourself!
2.5/3hours
€20 members.
€25 non-members

Tuesday 23. (1.30 start) Ballyvourney hike.
2.5/3hours).
€20 members.
€25 non-members

Sat 27 The Lost Valley - Exploring a plethora of prehistoric monuments in a remote valley in the Shehy Mountains c4hours 10am start
€25 members
€30 non-members

Sun 28 Walking from the Clydagh Valley to Ballyvourney (9.30-12.30). Forest roads, turf tracks and minor roads over the shoulder of Mullaghanish and between the lakes.
€25 members
€30 non-members

Tuesday 30
Exploring Inchigeelagh on minor roads
(2.5/3hours)
€20 members.
€25 non-members

Thurs Jan 1 The Paps Mountains (or one at least!). It’s a tradition and a great way to start the year!
10am (c4 hours)
€25 members
€30 non-members

Jan 3:
Peninsula walk on the Sheep’s Head Way. Off road on way marked trails (10-15k).
10am (3-4 hours).
€25 members
€30 non-members

Jan 4:
Local walk in the Clondrohid area. Minor roads, boreens, and forest roads. c10k. (9.30-12.30)
€20 members.
€25 non-members

Tuesday Jan 6
Nollaig na mBan walk! Further details to come! (1.30-4.00).
€20 members.
€25 non-members

Limited dates available for private bookings.

17/12/2025

Seasonal walks 🎄

Winter Solstice Walk Sunday 21
Bí linn!
Walking from the Top of Coom to Cúil Aodha village via backroads, finishing at the Scoil Scairte for a few poems and maybe even a song! Bring along a verse to read or make something up!
Backroads with possible off-road to view a monument!
Returning to the Top of Coom afterwards for whatever you’re having yourself!
9.30am start.
Booking essential. 0872231225
2.5/3hours
€20 members.
€25 non-members

Tuesday 23. (1.30 start)
Walking in Ballyvourney.
2.5/3hours).
€20 members.
€25 non-members

23/10/2025

🚶‍♀️ Lee Valley Walking is open for membership. Our membership year runs from Oct to September. 🚶‍♀️🏔 🌳
Sunday morning’s walk in Cuil Aodha is suitable for beginners and those who’d like to try out a walk with Lee Valley Walking!
Information session provided.
Booking 0872231225

25/08/2025

04/06/2025

June Walking - Siúlóidi Mí Meitheamh

18/05/2025

National Parks and Wildlife Service are hosting a BioBlitz in St. Gobnait’s Wood in Baile Bhúire on Thursday 22nd and Friday the 23rd of May to celebrate Natura 2000 Day during Biodiversity Week. All activities are free and open to all members of the public.

Baile Bhúirne is in the heart of the Múscráí Gaeltacht and as such there will be someone on site at all times delighted to talk all things woodland ecology as Gaeilge!

Beginning the event with a Bat talk and walk by Conor Kelleher in the Mills Inn at 8.30pm on Thursday evening, we will then go for a stroll along the river with some bat detectors seeing how many species we can identify. We will also see how moth traps are set up and discuss what species we are likely to catch that night!

Friday will be spent searching for as many other species as possible, starting early in the morning looking at birds and moths. Through the day we will have an array of experts in plants, bryophytes, lichens, and the vast world of invertebrates! Be sure to check Biodiversityweek.ie and search for the Baile Bhúirne BioBlitz over the coming days for a full break down of the events in St Gobnait’s Wood. We hope to see you there!

Gaeilge

Beidh BioBlitz ag an tSeirbhís Páirceanna Náisiúinta agus Fiadhúlra i gCoill Naomh Ghobnait ar an Déardaoin 22ú agus Dé hAoine 23ú den mhí seo chun chéiliúireadh adhéanamh ar Lá Natura 2000. Beidh chulie imeacht soar in aisce don phobal. Beidh duine ann an t-am uilig chun éiceolaíocht na coille a mhíniú inár dteanga dhúchais freisin.

Tosóidh an ócáid ag 8.30i.n. sa Mhuilleann le cainnt agus siúlóid le Conor Kelleher faoi ialtóga na háite. Freisin fiecfimid conas gaiste leamhan a chur agus labhróimid faoi cén speiceas a fheictear sa choill de ghnáth. Dé hAoine ansin beimuid ag déanamh iarracht speiceas coille eile a thaifeadeadh; éin, féileacáin, bláthanna, raithneach, licéin, agus na céadta feithidí chomh maith! Déan seic ar Biodiversityweek.ie chun an amchlár uilig a fháil. Tá súil againn go bhfeicfimid ann tú!

20/03/2025

Anocht ag a hocht!