Looking for a magical route through Ireland?
Dublin can wait if it's about live an adventure on the nature Ireland's most authentic. What are you waiting for to discover it? This trail, which you may have heard little or nothing about, is for the adventurers those who don't care sweat shirt and who do not feel fear or laziness in the face of weather adversities -here they are constants-.
The Cuilcagh Legnabrocky Road is one of the five routes to discover the Cuilcagh Mountains in Marble Arch Caves UNESCO Global Geopark , in North Ireland . Possibly its greatest attraction for those who do not know it is that path covered with wood that seems to have no end and is surrounded by green fields Y cliffs.
The cliffs of Cuilcagh Mountain.
The Cuilcagh Legnabrocky Way covers a total of 7.4 km (14.8 km round trip) with the impressive mosaic of southern Fermanagh and an exciting rise of 550 meters that will take you about six hours, it all depends on the effort you put into it.
“It is essential to monitor weather conditions of the day because often the weather can be more severe the further up the mountain you go. We always recommend wearing appropriate clothing and good waterproof footwear”, they explain to Traveler.es from Marble Arch Caves.
Along the way you will find landscapes and native species.
The journey begins with a landscape of limestone known as 'The Fertile Rock' and surrounded by fields full of wild flowers , even more so in spring. In its path you will find abandoned cabins , potato growing fields, known as Lazy beds ', and amazing archaeological remains of ireland as a burial mound of the bronze age (2500 - 500 BC), and the Lake Atona , 13,000 years old.
ASCENT TO HEAVEN
East ascent to heaven has to have reward and are the views of the mountain of ** Cuilcagh on the horizon** and such cotton fields rugs that extend around the swamp, and that in spring and summer take on a spectacular reddish and purple color. All this accompanied by the feeling of climbing on the geological time , or what is the same, walk on 8 million years.
After four kilometers of road, the Ascent to Cuilcagh . The guides say Marbel Cave that if you are lucky you will appreciate Native species As the red grouse either scottish grouse , a type of galliform bird, also ravens and golden plovers , the latter closer to the swamp.
Crowned Cuilcagh Legnabrocky, weather permitting, you will have the best panoramas of the place and with luck you will be able to see on the horizon the morne mountains and the croagh patrick mountains.
Adventurers, Ireland awaits you!
Address: Cuilcagh Legnabrocky Trail, Co. Fermanagh View map
Telephone: +44 (0) 28 6634 8855
Schedule: open 24 hours a day
Half price: Free entrance