Camaderry
Duration: About 4.5 hours
Although the Spinc walk receives more traffic, the views from Camaderry on the other side of the Upper Lake at Glendalough are at least as good and make for a fine walk.
 Forest path near Education Centre |
 Summit of Camaderry (SE Top) |
 Glenealo River |
Route
- Starting from the car park at the Upper Lake in Glendalough, head towards the lake and follow the wide path running westwards along the northern side of the lake.
- A short distance along this path is the Education Centre. Just after this, take the smaller path on the right heading uphill. Follow this path through a lovely forest until it takes a sharp turn left into a clearing. Take the small path on the right (its the only path) uphill.
- The trees are quickly left behind and on the open mountainside the path leading to the SE summit of Camaderry is clearly visible.
- At the SE summit, continue on the path to reach the NW (slightly higher) summit.
- From the NW summit, the two reservoir lakes at Turlough Hill are visible. Head towards the southernmost lake (on the left). The path quickly disappears and its necessary to pick your way through a series of peat hags.
- As you approach the reservoir, bear left and downhill towards the Glenealo River. Note that it is essential not to start the descent left too early (i.e. before nearing the reservoir) as there are dangerous cliffs between the summit of Camaderry and the Upper Lake. At the river, turn left back towards Glendalough. Follow the river to where it joins the path coming down from the Spinc ridge. Join the path and it follow it down beside the Glenealo River to reach the miners village at the western end of the Upper Lake.
- Follow the path that runs along the northern side of the lake to return to the car park.
Other Maps
Since the google map for Glendalough lacks detail just now, the map below is below is probably more useful.
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(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
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May 17th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Excellent web site. Makes looking for walks an easy and worthwhile task. Should be a big boost to attracting people to the locality both nationally and internationally.
I will be doing the walk in the near future and if your maps is as good in practive as it is on the web site it deserves 5 out of 5.
It may be helpful to include more compass bearings in the narative of the walk as they can be very helpful if the mist comes down, it makes the walk much safer.
July 5th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
I did this walk recently and I was very impressed with the directions for the start of the walk. More directions are required for the second half. As a result I wish to downgrate my rating from a 5 to a 3.50.
July 16th, 2009 at 8:56 am
If you could suggest improvements to the directions I’d be more than happy to include them.
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