First steps for rural walkway project

A NEW era in rural tourism began at Sheep’s Head in west Cork over the weekend when the first of four publicly funded walkways was officially opened.

Sheep’s Head Walkway, along with Bluestack Way in Donegal, Suck Valley Way in Roscommon and Galway and Eamonn a’Chnoic Loop Walk in Tipperary were named last March by Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Minister Eamon Ó Cuív as pilot areas for a walks scheme.

It aims to ease the issues that have arisen in parts of the countryside in recent years over access by walkers to land for recreational purposes.