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JB Malone Memorial, Wicklow Way. The establishment of the Ulster Way in Northern Ireland in the 1970s [5] prompted the creation of the Cospóir Long Distance Walking Routes Committee (now the 'National Trails Advisory Committee' of the Irish Sports Council) to establish a national network of long-distance trails in the Republic of Ireland. [6]
Between 5 and 10 July 2011, Welsh International ultra-runner, Jennifer Salter (36), broke the existing End-to-End World Running record set by Ireland's Richard Donovan by over 14 hours by covering the 555 kilometres (345 mi) distance in 4 days, 23 hours, 3 minutes and 10 seconds. [5]
Milestone on Mountbellew Bridge, originally erected near by c.1760. Distances are given in Irish miles to: Dublin (79); Athlone (20) Ballyforan (9) Ballinasloe (2); Galway (23) Tuam (12) Dunmore (2) Detail of John Rocque's 1794 map of Ireland showing scales of English and Irish miles Milestone on the N2 road reading: Slane 5, Carrickmacross 21 and Collon 9 (Irish) miles.
The Beara Way (Irish: Slí Bhéara) [2] is a long-distance trail in the southwest of Ireland. It is a 206-kilometre (128-mile) long circular trail around the Beara Peninsula that begins and ends in Glengarriff, County Cork, also passing through parts of County Kerry. [citation needed] It is typically completed in nine days. [1]
In general, neither Ireland nor Great Britain uses latitude or longitude in describing internal geographic locations. Instead grid reference systems are used for mapping.. The national grid referencing system was devised by the Ordnance Survey, and is heavily used in their survey data, and in maps (whether published by the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland or ...
The Wicklow Round is a long-distance hill running challenge in the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland. [1] The route follows a prescribed 100-kilometre circuit of 26 mountains, which must be completed in a fixed order, that total over 6,000 metres (20,000 ft) of elevation; there is some flexibility on route-choices between peaks. [2]
Rail trails in the Republic of Ireland (8 P) Pages in category "Long-distance trails in the Republic of Ireland" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
National Indoor Arena (Ireland) 200m (indoor) Tartan Dublin Lucan Harriers 400m Tartan Lucan Harriers Dublin Éamonn Ceannt Park, Crumlin: 400m Cinder Dublin Chapelizod: 300m Tartan Donore Harriers: Dublin Tallaght: 400m Tartan Tallaght Athletics Club Galway Ballinasloe: 400m Tartan Galway Galway, Dangan 400m Tartan synthetic track Galway ...