Cycling Tours
Selected Cycling Routes :Tours From Carrick-On-Suir:
Carrick-on-Suir-Mahon Bridge-Mahon Falls-Carrick-on-Suir.
Length: 24 miles / 36km
Highlights: Mahon Falls in the Comeragh Mountains
Carrick-on-Suir-Crotty’s Lake-Carrick-on-Suir.
Length: 14 miles / 24km
Highlights: Crottys Lake in the Comeragh Mountains; View the majestic Comeraghs en route; Hiding place of the 18th century highwayman, Crotty the Robber; Mountain and wooden walks
Carrick-on-Suir-Ballyneale-Ballypatrick-Kilcash-Slievenamon-Kilcash-Carrick-on-Suir Length: 13 miles / 22km
Highlights: Slievenamon (hill of the Women - ideal for hill-walking, with many wooded walks also; panoramic views from summit. On foothills of Slievenamon – ruins of Kilcash Castle built by the Butlers of Ormonde.
Carrick-on-Suir-Ballynoran (N24)-Kilsheelan Village-Glencomeragh-Churchtown-Carrick-on-Suir.
Length: 16 miles / 27km
Highlights: Tipperary Crystal & Dove Hill Norman Tower Keep at Ballynoran. De La Poer Castle at picturesque riverside village of Kilsheelan. Churchtown Graveyard, burial place of the Gaelic Athletic Association founder member, Maurice Davin.
Carrick-on-Suir-Faugheen-Aheeny-Castletown-Carrick-on-Suir
Length: 12 miles / 21km
Highlights: 8th century Kilkieran High Crosses with their detailed tracery and interlacing Celtic spirals and patterns; abandoned Victorian slate quarries, the site of the 1992 Sculptors Symposium.
Carrick-on-Suir-Mothel-Clonea Power Village-Rathgormack-Carrick-on-Suir
Highlights: Mothel Well - traditional place of pilgrimage with spring water noted for its purity; Church at Clonea-Power village with its Harry Clarke stained glass window.
Bike Hire:
Mr John O Keeffe, OK Sports, New Street,
Carrick-on-Suir
Tel: (051) 641642
