Wonderful walk crying out to be completed

RETURNING from a recent walking holiday on the Dingle peninsula, my partner and I chanced to stop off in Abbeyfeale where we heard about the Great Southern Trail, the walking and cycling route being developed along the trackbed of the old Limerick-to-Tralee railway line.

As we had a couple of hours to spare, we decided to walk a short stretch of the trail between the former Devon Road station and Barnagh tunnel. It was a wonderfully peaceful walk, surrounded by rolling countryside and woodland with nesting birds and wild flowers much in evidence, far from the noise and fumes of the main road.

The surface of the trail is first class, making for very comfortable walking or cycling, and access is easy.