Walk of the Week: Clonakilty

WE set off north, up MacCurtain Hill, passing the garda station on our right.

We take the second left, just above the small park, onto Chapel Lane. It rises as we go, giving good views over the town. Soon, we leave houses behind and are on a country road with the usual blackthorns and whitethorns, locally called ‘sceacs’.

We begin to descend. At the bottom of the hill, we come to a four-cross-roads and go straight across. The OS map shows the ‘green road’ as starting on the other side of the stream but it begins on this side, a track on the left immediately we cross the R588. We cross a ford of stepping-stones, with the bridge on our right.