Poetry in motion by Glanmore lakeshore

GLANMORE LAKE WALK, BEARA PENINSULA

WE will walk along the little-used tarred road with Glanmore Lake on our right, and then around the top of the valley. We can return by the same route (8km total) or via unmarked trails to a path leading under the cliffs on the opposite shore (6km in all). This option should not be undertaken late in the day or in bad weather.

The road by the lake has rhododendron on both sides. To the left, is Knockastumpa Mountain, in the Caha range. Across the water, the spectacular cliffs of Foilemon Mountain drop almost sheer to the lake edge, the lower slopes blanketed in Scots Pine and rhododendron. Tennyson the poet or Landseer the painter would no doubt have found these slopes, reflected on the brown lake water, romantic and inspiring. The lake is rich in brown trout, and sea trout and salmon make their way up the Croanshag River from Kenmare Bay. Fishing is by licence.