This week s walk takes us to explore part of our industrial heritage. However, it is not for the faint hearted as this involves some walking on the main Mallow/Killarney Road (N72).
Even though there is a decent hard shoulder it cannot be recommended for children or for dogs on leads who are nervous/skittish in traffic. Others must also think the same as I met only one other soul on this walk.
The Munster Coalfield measures six hundred and forty square miles from Kanturk to the middle of Co. Clare. In the 18th Century there were four worked coal deposits in Ireland, the Leinster Coalfield, the Slieve Ardagh Coalfield, the Connaught Coalfield, and the Kanturk Coalfield.