Hiking In Ireland, The Old Kenmare Road and Torc Mountain Killarney

Torc is popular for hill walkers as it can be accessed from a marked stone-step path its base at Torc Waterfall, which then becomes a small road (the Old Kenmare Road) from the top of Torc Waterfall to the mountain itself, and then finishes with a track of wooden railway "sleepers" over the underlying bogland to its summit at 535 metres, The route can thus be completed without full hiking boots, and requires no special navigational skills. View northwards down to Muckross Lake and Lough Leane. The summit of Torc has views of the Lakes of Killarney, the Black Valley, the MacGillycuddy's Reeks and Muckross House and grounds, The route from the Torc Waterfall car-park (at V966847), to the summit of Torc Mountain and back is 8–kilometres and takes 3 hours. Hill walkers can avoid the circa 100 steps of Torc Waterfall and start instead from the upper Torc Waterfall car-park (at 55 metres, V967842), to complete the shorter 7.5–kilometre hour 2.5–hour route to the summit of Torc Mountain, via the Old Kenmare Road, and back to the upper car-park. The northerly views from the summit of Torc Mountain can be achieved by climbing the steep stone steps up the lower Cardiac Hill, which is half-way up the north facing slopes of Torc Mountain, and which can be accessed from the N71 Road, half a kilometre from the Torc Waterfall car-park 💢💢 Hope you guys enjoy this! 👉 If you enjoy this video, please like and share it. 👉 Don't forget to subscribe to this channel for more updates. 👉 Subscribe now ( Hiking For Life ): channel link - https://cutt.ly/ZwUTMbhU 📰 Connect with our socials! ↪️ TikTok : https://cutt.ly/HwUT0zMy ↪️ Instagram : https://cutt.ly/EwUT1dns 💢💢 Watch our others travel videos :) ↪️ The Horses Glen Kerry - https://cutt.ly/XwUYxfm1 ↪️ Gap Of Dunloe Kerry - https://cutt.ly/1wUYxPRA ↪️ Mt Brandon Mountain - https://cutt.ly/DwUYx1Oj ↪️ Hags Glen & The Bones Mountains - https://cutt.ly/dwUYcg4U