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Connacht Map Set

If you’re planning on setting foot on the shores of Connemara or Achill this summer, this set of three detailed maps will be the perfect guide. The Connemara Mountains are…

Kerry Contours

Working away at draft detail for new Kerry maps, still a long way to go but it’s interesting terrain and you wouldn’t notice the days slipping by. Leaving aside the…

Sitka Spruce

Sitka Spruce as a tree species gets a bad rap in Ireland. Making up c 45% of commercial plantations and grown sometimes as near monocultures – various labels are put…

School Mass Paths

This photo taken 2008 is of a footbridge across the Kilbride or Brittas River at Manor Kilbride in Co.Wicklow. It’s part of an old school / mass / general shortcut…

North Wicklow Digital Map Update

This to advise users of our mobile app EastWest Maps of two updates: 1) The Android version of EastWest Maps app now displays location in Irish Grid co-ordinates. The current…

Wild Nephin Update

Thanks to Michael Chambers of Ballycroy National Park & Shramore for advising of a new signposted walking route that has recently been laid out at the popular Letterkeen trailhead near…

Irish Examiner Supplement

Purchase the Irish Examiner this past weekend and for the next two weeks and you’ll get a walking trail supplement. Entitled 100 Irish Trails, this is published in association with…

New Dublin & Wicklow Maps

Three New 1:25,000 scale detailed maps are now available for the Dublin Mountains, Wicklow West and Wicklow East. It may have taken five years with lots of hiccups and hard…

Making a Start on Kerry

Cleared the decks temporarily and making a start on plotting draft detail for parts of Kerry. In this case, two maps of The Reeks and Mangerton, overlapping around the Gap…

Powerscourt Deer Fence

The photo here is taken at the Water Gates above Powerscourt Waterfall in Co.Wicklow. This was one of the gates through extensive six foot deer fencing that surrounded Powerscourt Deerpark…