Lough Bray
Duration: about 2 hours
A shortish walk around Lough Bray Lower, with great views over secluded Lough Bray lodge. A longer walk around both Lough Bray Upper and Lough Bray Lower is also possible, but I prefer the shorter walk myself.
 Eagles Crag |
 Lough Bray Upper |
 Lough Bray Lodge |
Route
- The route starts at the path beside the gatehouse to Lough Bray lodge. There is a layby a hundred metres or so further along the road where its possible to park, although it can get tricky to find space in summer.
Gatehouse at start of route
Path at start of walk - Follow the path away from the road and you will soon see Lough Bray Lower. Follow the path around to the left and around the lough where it then climbs steeply up to Eagle Crag. There are excellent views over both loughs, and of Lough Bray lodge.
View over Lough Bray Upper from Eagle Crag - From Eagle Crag, bear right and follow the path along the ridge around Lough Bray Lower. This returns to the road to the north of the gatehouse, from where it is a short walk back to the start of the route.
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(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
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May 1st, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Hi,
(Father of 3!)
Just stumbled upon your site.
Great idea and a very fair comment about the lack of such a site on web etc.
One small suggest is to put road numbers onto all routes. E.g. lough Bray is on the R115.
Anyway thanks for your site and I hope to persuade my family to do the lough bray walk tomorrow.!!
May 3rd, 2010 at 8:28 am
I was hoping the google maps would take care of that, but point taken. I’ll add some more road details.
May 20th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
Love this site, great idea thank you! Would love to see printed which walks could be done with a pram.. We’re up for doing all walks 2-3 hours +.
Thanks a mill
Leigh
May 24th, 2010 at 7:57 am
Hmm, I’m not sure any of the walks here area really feasible with a pram. I do have a couple of new walks which I would say would be ok with a pram – one in Cruagh Wood and the other at the Lead Chimney near the Scalp – but I haven’t had time to add them online just yet. Will try to get them posted up asap.
May 25th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
The lough dan walk could be done with a pram if you stick to the road and path. You may need a little help getting over the stile, but i am sure it can be done. Be prepared for hard push up hill!
September 6th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Well done with your site. I climbed up Eagles Nest above Lough Bray and back to Gate lodge with 5 kids – youngest being 3 years old in approx 2 hrs. Myself and few friends have started doing 20km walks along Wicklow Way. Do you know of a route around the Lough Bray Upper and lower which would take approx 3.5 – 4 hrs? We want to avoid having to walk on the roads?
Tx
Mark
February 23rd, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Done this walk today after reading about it on your site. Absolutely fantastic.Really enjoyed it.A bit slippy and wet but well worth it. Thanks a million!
March 19th, 2011 at 9:42 am
Great website . Thanks – makes for some great days out
March 19th, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Great site. Agree with some other commentators that a “pram friendly” and “bike friendly” filter on routes would be really helpful. Also some road references to get there. keep up the good work!. L.
May 23rd, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Hi There,
did a nice walk last Saturday, 21/05/11. Started in Crone car park. Up WW as far as Glenspolan edge, then up to Maulin summit. From there across to Tonduff South and then Tonduff North.
Descended from Summit cairn down to Military Road. Intended to do a circuit of the two Lough’s Bray. However could not see any kind of track or path coming down, (or going up!!) for Upp Lough Bray.
Did wonder if it would be possible to take the Kippure Road up for a few hundred feet, and then switch over towards Upr Lough Bray? I needed to do it from that side, as it would then be simple to road walk back down along Glencree Valley to Crone car park.
June 19th, 2011 at 10:57 pm
I did this walk this morning, and it was lovely with the lakes and mountain. My only rant is I forgot about our Irish weather condition that made the entire path a swamp. You had to go very slowly and watch every step and even still I fell over several times sliding in the muck.
October 5th, 2011 at 9:33 am
Along with most of the other posters, Great Job, a really usefull site;
would you consider putting a system of labels for the terrain etc, I think that would help (particularily the older walker and those with families!)
Thanks once again!
November 6th, 2011 at 7:37 pm
Just back from this walk. Did the loop all around lower lake with 3 kids (youngest 3 and oldest 6) and took 3 1/2 hours but stopped 3 times for breaks/lunch etc. Very mucky (husband scrubbing shoes in sink right now!!) and quite hard to find path after leaving Eagle Crag, and it seemed to us like you just had to go across country for a bit which was hard going but maybe we missed something? The whole thing was a great adventure for the kids, the views were stunning and the weather was amazing for an early November day.