Walk of the week

CAMROSS, ANATRIM CHURCH AND DELOUR RIVER WALK, CO LAOIS

THE main mileage of this walk will be along the kind of pleasant backroads with which those who live or walk in rural Ireland will be eminently familiar. However, as usual in Ireland, when we walk a few miles we come upon artefacts of our unique history that strangers would cross oceans to see.

In this case, it is the village of Camross, nestling beneath the highest peak of the Slieve Bloom Mountains in the centre of the bowl of Ireland, looking down on its great pastoral and boggy plains.