Walk of the Week: Classical beauty in Glen of Aherlow

Glen of Aherlow Loop

Per my editor’s request, as we draw near to year’s end, I picked five favourites (the first of which was last week) of weekly walk-writing on this page. I last enjoyed this loop walk on a glorious September day in 2012, watching fish in the river and spotting water birds along its banks.

How lovely indeed was the glen, made famous by Charles Kickham’s sad song about a boy forced by evictions to leave Aherlow and join the English army.