Commitment to increase trails in the Walks Scheme

Payments are made to about 1,900 landholders to maintain 39 recreational walking trails around the country, and the Department of Rural and Community Development now invites expressions of interest from trail management committees, community groups and other similar entities for developed trails to be added to the Department’s Walks Scheme.

This scheme facilitates the development and maintenance of many of Ireland’s walking trails. It assists in provision of high quality walking trails by private landholders, by contracting them, or their nominees, to undertake maintenance work on sections of national waymarked ways and other priority walks that traverse their lands.