Devils Glen
Duration: about 1.5 hours
A very enjoyable walk through lovely woods to the Devils Glen waterfall, returning alongside the river through the glen.
 Path through woods |
 Waterfall |
 Woods |
Route
- Turn off the R763 into the entrance of the Devils Glen woods and drive for about a mile to the car park. At the entrance to the car park itself is a noticeboard with a map of the woods. Starting from this noticeboard, bear right and follow the clearly visible path into the woods.
- After a short distance, on the right you’ll see some overgrown steps (see photos below) leading up to a rocky outcrop – a short detour is in order for the view.
Steps to view point
Plaque on steps - Returning to the main path, follow the path through the woods to eventually reach the Devils Glen waterfall. The path is clearly marked and easy to follow. Note rock arch (see below) about halfway along the path, and various pieces of artwork on the way.
Rock arch - Return initially along the same path, but on reaching a fork bear left to stay by the river and return to the car park via a different route from that coming out. A couple of the sculptures along this route are shown below.
Sculpture
Sculpture
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(6 votes, average: 3.83 out of 5)
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May 13th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
After looking on the website I would be very intrested in any books bout the walks and would realy appreciate it if you could tell me were to purchase them.
I find the directions and other infomation very detailed and can imagine they are easy to follow.
Are your books the same ?
I will realy appreciate it if you could reply to me via email.
Thanks very much,
Andrew.
May 24th, 2010 at 7:46 am
The best book I’ve found for hill walks is “Best Irish Walks” by Joss Lynan (there’s a link to this from the web site). The walks in this book are all pretty long (certainly longer than I generally walk) but its usually easy to see how to trim them down to be shorter. For the lower level walks such as Devils Glen, Powerscourt etc there is also “Easy Walks Near Dublin”, also by Joss Lynan. However, most of the best knowledge about these walks seem to handed about by word of mouth. I have 3 or 4 new lower level walks queued up to add to the website, but haven’t had time to post them online just yet.
August 17th, 2010 at 7:54 am
t’s such a great site. fabulous, acutely fascinating!!!
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Gry online
October 25th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Walked both ways today with the family. It’s all quite easy to follow and well worth the effort. Just one thing, the lower (return) path seems longer and its important to follow the white markers up the hill towards the car park.
November 4th, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Thank you for putting together such a wonderful site. We followed your directions for this walk today and thoroughly enjoyed it, This is the second time I’ve ued your site as on Monday we chose the walk through Crone Woods (although we carried on the main path and did not turn down to the road as you suggest so did not reach the waterfall.) I’ve included a link to your site on mine – I hope you don’t mind but I wanted to give you the credit for providing the original inspiration for this week’s posts.
January 16th, 2012 at 10:36 pm
Can you do this walk with a buggy please?